caliche
[kaˈlit͡ʃe]
The verdict
“caliche” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #82,699 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,699
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Costra de arena y sales minerales, que aflora en el desierto de Atacama en el norte de Chile, de la que se extrae el salitre.
Corpus desk
Index ES-caliche · caliche · Spanish
caliche · rank #82,699 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,699
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH calcos
Nearest frequency peer: calcos (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “caliche”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- cafre
cafre
17,307 corpus weight
- calandria
calandria
17,306 corpus weight
- calcado
calcado
17,304 corpus weight
- calcos
calcos
17,303 corpus weight
- caliche
caliche
17,302 corpus weight
- calmes
calmes
17,301 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “caliche” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caliche |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈlit͡ʃe] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,699 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “caliche” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
caliche is uncommon Spanish at frequency #82,699 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kaˈlit͡ʃe]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for caliche in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is caliche, spelled C-A-L-I-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Costra de arena y sales minerales, que aflora en el desierto de Atacama en el norte de Chile, de la que se extrae el salitre.
- 2En la alfarería, pequeña piedra que queda por error incrustada en la vacija de greda.
- 3Costra de cal que se levanta de una pared encalada o enlucida.
- 4Maca, huella que deja un golpe sobre la corteza de una fruta como el melón.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.