caligrafía
[kaliɣ̞ɾaˈfia]
The verdict
“caligrafía” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #25,540. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,540
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 77,812
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Arte de escribir con letras o trazos refinados, según diversos estilos y principios estéticos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caligrafía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaliɣ̞ɾaˈfia] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #25,540 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “caligrafía” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around caligrafía (IPA [kaliɣ̞ɾaˈfia]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,540 among 77,812 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for caligrafía, with forms such as "acligrafía", "cailgrafía", and "calgirafía". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is caligrafía, spelled C-A-L-I-G-R-A-F-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Arte de escribir con letras o trazos refinados, según diversos estilos y principios estéticos.
- 2Rasgos de la escritura que son propios de una persona o de un documento manuscrito.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acligrafía
- cailgrafía
- calgirafía
- caligarfía
- caliggrafía
- caligrafaí
- caligraffía
- caligraífa
- caligrfaía
- caligrrafía
- calirgafía
- calligrafía
- ccaligrafía
- claigrafía
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of caligrafía - 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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Using “caligrafía”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-L-I-G-R-A-F-Í-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kaliɣ̞ɾaˈfia] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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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.