calígrafo
[kaˈliɣ̞ɾafo]
The verdict
“calígrafo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #89,643 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,643
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Persona que se dedica a la caligrafía (arte de escribir a mano con trazos artísticos) o tiene conocimientos y pericia en este procedimiento.
Corpus desk
Index ES-caligrafo · calígrafo · Spanish
calígrafo · rank #89,643 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,643
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH camela
Nearest frequency peer: camela (+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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “calígrafo”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- báltica
báltica
10,366 corpus weight
- cacica
cacica
10,364 corpus weight
- calígrafo
calígrafo
10,358 corpus weight
- camela
camela
10,357 corpus weight
- capón
capón
10,352 corpus weight
- cardúmenes
cardúmenes
10,350 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “calígrafo” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calígrafo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈliɣ̞ɾafo] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,643 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “calígrafo” en español
Rare enough to double-check
calígrafo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #89,643 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kaˈliɣ̞ɾafo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Persona que se dedica a la caligrafía (arte de escribir a mano con trazos artísticos) o tiene conocimientos y pericia en este procedimiento.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for calígrafo, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is calígrafo, spelled C-A-L-Í-G-R-A-F-O.
Definition
- 1Persona que se dedica a la caligrafía (arte de escribir a mano con trazos artísticos) o tiene conocimientos y pericia en este procedimiento.
This word in other languages
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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