Cali
[ˈkali]
The verdict
“Cali” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #7,395. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,395
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ciudad capital del departamento del Valle, al suroccidente de Colombia, y una de las más populosas del país. Coordenadas: 03°27′″N 76°32′″O. Su nombre de fundación es Santiago de Cali.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cali · Cali · Spanish
Cali · rank #7,395 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,395
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cabildo
Nearest frequency peer: cabildo (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “Cali”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- atrae
atrae
92,609 corpus weight
- auxilio
auxilio
92,608 corpus weight
- cabildo
cabildo
92,607 corpus weight
- Cali
Cali
92,606 corpus weight
- casino
casino
92,605 corpus weight
- celebran
celebran
92,603 corpus weight
What this shows “Cali” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | Cali |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈkali] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,395 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “Cali”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Cali (IPA [ˈkali]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #7,395 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ciudad capital del departamento del Valle, al suroccidente de Colombia, y una de las más populosas del país. Coordenadas: 03°27′″N 76°32′″O. Su nombre de fundación es Santiago de Cali.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Cali, with forms such as "acli", "cail", and "calli". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "can", "cap", "col", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is Cali, spelled C-A-L-I.
Definition
- 1Ciudad capital del departamento del Valle, al suroccidente de Colombia, y una de las más populosas del país. Coordenadas: 03°27′″N 76°32′″O. Su nombre de fundación es Santiago de Cali.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acli
- cail
- calli
- ccali
- clai
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Cali - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).