calicó
Spanish, noun/kaliˈko/
calicó is spelled C-A-L-I-C-Ó (6 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written Spanish, the 176,328th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Calicó is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “calico” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Un tejido de algodón, realizado con ligamento tafetán, de aspecto rústico debido a los restos de almidón en…”.
What does calicó mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecalico
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Un tejido de algodón, realizado con ligamento tafetán, de aspecto rústico debido a los restos de almidón en la fibra.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of calicó
- calicós plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce calicó?
- /kaliˈko/
- [ka.liˈko]
- [kaliˈko]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to calicó
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is calicó in Spanish?
calicó appears about once in every 23 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).