calcáneo
[kalˈkaneo]
The verdict
“calcáneo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #99,306 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,306
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hueso del tarso, en la parte posterior del pie, donde forma el talón.
Corpus desk
Index ES-calcaneo · calcáneo · Spanish
calcáneo · rank #99,306 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,306
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH caleño
Nearest frequency peer: caleño (+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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “calcáneo”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- cacareada
cacareada
698 corpus weight
- cachando
cachando
697 corpus weight
- calcáneo
calcáneo
695 corpus weight
- caleño
caleño
694 corpus weight
- campales
campales
692 corpus weight
- cancerosos
cancerosos
690 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “calcáneo” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calcáneo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kalˈkaneo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “calcáneo” en español
Rare enough to double-check
calcáneo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #99,306 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kalˈkaneo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hueso del tarso, en la parte posterior del pie, donde forma el talón.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for calcáneo, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is calcáneo, spelled C-A-L-C-Á-N-E-O.
Definition
- 1Hueso del tarso, en la parte posterior del pie, donde forma el talón.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how calcáneo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«Un espolón calcáneo es un crecimiento óseo que aparece en el talón, en el lugar donde los tendones de los músculos del pie o de la pierna se unen al hueso denominado calcáneo».
«De cada huesecillo salía un alambre, con una cartela al final. Las cartelas decían: “Tibia, peroné, maléolo interno, maléolo externo, tarso, astrágalo, calcáneo, escafoides, cuboides, las tres cuñas, metatarso, falanges, falangitas, falangetas”».
This word in other languages
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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