calcáreo
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#81,760
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
calcáreo is anSpanishadj. It means: Que contiene cal (óxido de calcio). Pronounced [kalˈkaɾeo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calcáreo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [kalˈkaɾeo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for calcáreo is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kalˈkaɾeo]. Corpus data places it at rank #81,760 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for calcáreo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is calcáreo, spelled C-A-L-C-Á-R-E-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que contiene cal (óxido de calcio).
- 2Se dice de los suelos que se componen de carbonato de calcio, suelen ser pedregosos y de color más o menos blanco-amarillento. También se llaman suelos calizos porque proceden de la descomposición de la piedra caliza. Es la roca típica de las estalactitas y estalagmitas de las cuevas, aunque en el exterior puede adoptar formas diversas.
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Frequency rank: #81,760 in Spanish
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