caliente
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,196
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
caliente is anSpanishadj. It means: Que tiene una temperatura elevada. Pronounced [kaˈljẽn̪t̪e]. It ranks #2,196 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with cliente and carente.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caliente |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [kaˈljẽn̪t̪e] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,196 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for caliente is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈljẽn̪t̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,196 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for caliente, with forms such as "acliente", "cailente", and "caleinte". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "cliente", "carente", "clienta", 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 caliente, spelled C-A-L-I-E-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que tiene una temperatura elevada.
- 2Dícese de un cuarto, una vestimenta, etc.: que acomoda y da calor.
- 3Dícese de una disputa, riña, batalla: vivo, acalorado.
- 4Afectado por la ira, el fastidio.
- 5Que posee un marcado apetito sexual.
- 6Sexualmente excitado.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acliente,cailente,caleinte,calienet,caliennte,calientte,calietne,calinete,calliente,ccaliente,claiente
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for caliente
Misspelling Variants of "caliente"
Frequency rank: #2,196 in Spanish
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