caliza
[kaˈlisa]
The verdict
“caliza” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #19,047. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,047
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Roca sedimentaria porosa de origen químico, formada mineralógicamente por carbonatos, principalmente carbonato de calcio.
Corpus desk
Index ES-caliza · caliza · Spanish
caliza · rank #19,047 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,047
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cagaste
Nearest frequency peer: cagaste (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “caliza”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- buey
buey
80,957 corpus weight
- burguesa
burguesa
80,956 corpus weight
- cagaste
cagaste
80,955 corpus weight
- caliza
caliza
80,954 corpus weight
- candado
candado
80,953 corpus weight
- cangrejo
cangrejo
80,952 corpus weight
What this shows “caliza” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caliza |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈlisa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “caliza”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around caliza (IPA [kaˈlisa]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,047 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Roca sedimentaria porosa de origen químico, formada mineralógicamente por carbonatos, principalmente carbonato de calcio.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for caliza, with forms such as "acliza", "cailza", and "caliaz". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "caza", "clima", "calma", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is caliza, spelled C-A-L-I-Z-A.
Definition
- 1Roca sedimentaria porosa de origen químico, formada mineralógicamente por carbonatos, principalmente carbonato de calcio.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acliza
- cailza
- caliaz
- calizza
- calliza
- calzia
- ccaliza
- claiza
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of caliza - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).