callar
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,765
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
callar is aSpanishverb. It means: No emitir ningún sonido vocal, también por medio de la voz y por escrito. Pronounced [kaˈʝaɾ]. It ranks #8,765 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with calle and calor.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | callar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kaˈʝaɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,765 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for callar is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈʝaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,765 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for callar, with forms such as "acllar", "calalr", and "callarr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "calle", "calor", "calma", 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 callar, spelled C-A-L-L-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1No emitir ningún sonido vocal, también por medio de la voz y por escrito.
- 2Guardar algo en secreto; no decirlo.
- 3Dejar de llorar, cantar, gritar, tocar un instrumento, de meter bulla o ruido.
- 4Abstenerse de manifestar lo que se siente o se sabe.
- 5Dejar de emitir ciertos animales sus voces; como dejar de cantar un pájaro, de ladrar un perro, de croar una rana, etc.
- 6Dejar de hacer ruido el mar, el viento, un volcán, etc.
- 7Dejar de sonar un instrumento músico.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acllar,calalr,callarr,callra,ccallar,clalar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for callar
Misspelling Variants of "callar"
Frequency rank: #8,765 in Spanish
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