caleidoscopio

/[kalejð̞osˈkopjo]/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Frequency Rank

#66,734

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

caleidoscopio is aSpanishnoun. It means: Tubo que encierra dos o tres espejos inclinados y en un extremo dos láminas de vidrio, entre las cuales hay varios objetos de figura irregular que al ser mirados por el extremo opuesto, sus imágene... Pronounced [kalejð̞osˈkopjo].

Key facts for caleidoscopio
PropertyValue
Headwordcaleidoscopio
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[kalejð̞osˈkopjo]
Letters13
Frequency rank#66,734
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of caleidoscopio in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for caleidoscopio is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kalejð̞osˈkopjo]. Corpus data places it at rank #66,734 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tubo que encierra dos o tres espejos inclinados y en un extremo dos láminas de vidrio, entre las cuales hay varios objetos de figura irregular que al ser mirados por el extremo opuesto, sus imágene...".

No misspelling variants are generated for caleidoscopio 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 caleidoscopio, spelled C-A-L-E-I-D-O-S-C-O-P-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tubo que encierra dos o tres espejos inclinados y en un extremo dos láminas de vidrio, entre las cuales hay varios objetos de figura irregular que al ser mirados por el extremo opuesto, sus imágenes se ven multiplicadas simétricamente al ir volteando el tubo.

Frequency rank: #66,734 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "caleidoscopio"?
"caleidoscopio" is spelled C-A-L-E-I-D-O-S-C-O-P-I-O. The IPA pronunciation is [kalejð̞osˈkopjo].
What does "caleidoscopio" mean?
As a noun, "caleidoscopio" means: Tubo que encierra dos o tres espejos inclinados y en un extremo dos láminas de vidrio, entre las cuales hay varios objetos de figura irregular que al ser mirados por el extremo opuesto, sus imágene...
How do you pronounce "caleidoscopio"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "caleidoscopio" is [kalejð̞osˈkopjo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.