caleta
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,470
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
caleta is aSpanishnoun. It means: Ensenada o cala pequeña. Pronounced [kaˈlet̪a]. Often confused with cata and carta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caleta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈlet̪a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,470 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for caleta is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈlet̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #18,470 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for caleta, with forms such as "acleta", "caelta", and "caleat". 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, "cata", "carta", "calma", 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 caleta, spelled C-A-L-E-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ensenada o cala pequeña.
- 2Lugar destinado a la pesca artesanal.
- 3Lugar apartado o semiescondido en una ciudad, que es usado por vagabundos, niños de la calle o delincuentes como refugio para pasar la noche en compañía.
- 4Escondite, lugar para no ser visto o detectado por otros, donde a menudo se guardan artículos o dinero ilegales.
- 5Ladrón que hurta haciendo un agujero.
- 6Diminutivo de cala.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acleta,caelta,caleat,caletta,calleta,caltea,ccaleta,claeta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for caleta
Misspelling Variants of "caleta"
Frequency rank: #18,470 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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