calcio
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,531
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
calcio is aSpanishnoun. It means: Elemento químico perteneciente al grupo 2 de la tabla periódica de los elementos. Se encuentra en el medio interno de los organismos como ion(ca) o formando parte de otras moléculas; en algunas ser... Pronounced [ˈkalsjo]. Often confused with Cali and caló.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calcio |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkalsjo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,531 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for calcio is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkalsjo]. Corpus data places it at rank #11,531 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Elemento químico perteneciente al grupo 2 de la tabla periódica de los elementos. Se encuentra en el medio interno de los organismos como ion(ca) o formando parte de otras moléculas; en algunas ser...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for calcio, with forms such as "aclcio", "caclio", and "calccio". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Cali", "caló", "casco", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 calcio, spelled C-A-L-C-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Elemento químico perteneciente al grupo 2 de la tabla periódica de los elementos. Se encuentra en el medio interno de los organismos como ion(ca) o formando parte de otras moléculas; en algunas seres vivos se halla precipitado en forma de esqueleto interno o externo. Los iones de calcio actuan de cofactor en muchas reacciones enzimáticas, interviene en la gluconeogénesis, junto al K y NA regulan la contracción muscular. El porcentaje de calcio en los organismos es variable y depende de las especies, pero por término medio representa el 2,45% en el conjunto de los seres vivos; en los vegetales, solo representa el 0,007%.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aclcio,caclio,calccio,calcoi,calico,callcio,calsio,ccalcio,clacio
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Misspelling Variants of "calcio"
Frequency rank: #11,531 in Spanish
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