calco
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#46,977
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
calco is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción y efecto de calcar Pronounced [ˈkalko]. Often confused with caso and culo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkalko] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #46,977 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for calco is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkalko]. Corpus data places it at rank #46,977 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for calco, with forms such as "aclco", "caclo", and "calcco". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "caso", "culo", "caro", 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 calco, spelled C-A-L-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción y efecto de calcar
- 2Copia calcada de un original
- 3Por extensión, copia muy similar al original
- 4Expresión lingüística cuya estructura o semántica se ha adoptado del equivalente en otro idioma
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aclco,caclo,calcco,callco,caloc,ccalco,claco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for calco
Misspelling Variants of "calco"
Frequency rank: #46,977 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: