caloría
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#94,968
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
caloría is aSpanishnoun. It means: La cantidad de energía necesaria para elevar la temperatura de un gramo de agua destilada en 1º Celsius a nivel del mar (lo que es igual a una atmósfera de presión); su abreviación es cal. Pronounced [kaloˈɾia].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caloría |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaloˈɾia] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #94,968 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for caloría is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaloˈɾia]. Corpus data places it at rank #94,968 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for caloría in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 caloría, spelled C-A-L-O-R-Í-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1La cantidad de energía necesaria para elevar la temperatura de un gramo de agua destilada en 1º Celsius a nivel del mar (lo que es igual a una atmósfera de presión); su abreviación es cal.
- 2La cantidad de energía necesaria para elevar la temperatura de un gramo de agua a nivel del mar (una atmósfera de presión), su abreviación es Cal.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #94,968 in Spanish
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