calcado
[kalˈkað̞o]
The verdict
“calcado” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #82,697 among 77,812 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,697
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 77,812
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Participio de calcar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-calcado · calcado · Spanish
calcado · rank #82,697 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,697
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 77,812
- PHOTO-FINISH calcos
Nearest frequency peer: calcos (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “calcado”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- cafre
cafre
17,307 corpus weight
- calandria
calandria
17,306 corpus weight
- calcado
calcado
17,304 corpus weight
- calcos
calcos
17,303 corpus weight
- caliche
caliche
17,302 corpus weight
- calmes
calmes
17,301 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “calcado” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calcado |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kalˈkað̞o] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “calcado” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
calcado is uncommon Spanish at frequency #82,697 among 77,812 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [kalˈkað̞o]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participio de calcar.".
No misspelling variants are generated for calcado in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is calcado, spelled C-A-L-C-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1Participio de calcar.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "calcado", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.