cale
[ˈkale]
The verdict
“cale” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #41,231) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,231
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Golpe suave con la mano.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cale · cale · Spanish
cale · rank #41,231 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,231
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH calmarse
Nearest frequency peer: calmarse (+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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “cale”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- buñuelos
buñuelos
58,774 corpus weight
- bélicas
bélicas
58,773 corpus weight
- cale
cale
58,770 corpus weight
- calmarse
calmarse
58,769 corpus weight
- cansaron
cansaron
58,767 corpus weight
- Caquetá
Caquetá
58,766 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “cale” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cale |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkale] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #41,231 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “cale”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cale is neighbouring look-alikes ("ce", "che", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈkale]. Frequency #41,231 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Golpe suave con la mano.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for cale, with forms such as "cael", "ccale", and "clae". 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, "ce", "che", "can", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is cale, spelled C-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Golpe suave con la mano.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cael
- ccale
- clae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cale - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "cale", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).