calle
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#443
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
calle is aSpanishnoun. It means: Camino urbano, especialmente el destinado al tránsito de vehículos. Pronounced [ˈkaʝe]. It ranks #443 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with cole and Carl.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calle |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkaʝe] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #443 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for calle is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkaʝe]. Corpus data places it at rank #443 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for calle, with forms such as "aclle", "calel", and "ccalle". 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, "cole", "Carl", "case", 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 calle, spelled C-A-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Camino urbano, especialmente el destinado al tránsito de vehículos.
- 2Por extensión, espacio urbano abierto y no ajardinado, por oposición al interior de los edificios.
- 3Por extensión, libertad de circular y moverse libremente.
- 4Por metonimia, mayoría de la población.
- 5Camino flanqueado de hileras de árboles u otras cosas.
- 6Serie de casillas por las que una ficha puede desplazarse en ciertos juegos de tablero.
- 7Cada una de las franjas longitudinales en que se divide la pista y que corresponden respectivamente a cada competidor en las pruebas de velocidad.
- 8Fila o hilera de espacios en blanco que se forma accidentalmente en una página compuesta y produce un efecto visual desagradable.
- 9Tramo de una calle₁ entre una y otra esquina.
- 10Población que depende administrativamente de otra.
- 11Experiencia, habilidad o pericia adquirida en la calle o también adquirida de modo práctico.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aclle,calel,ccalle,clale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for calle
Misspelling Variants of "calle"
Frequency rank: #443 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: