caloría
[kaloˈɾia]
The verdict
“caloría” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #94,968 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,968
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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.
Corpus desk
Index ES-caloria · caloría · Spanish
caloría · rank #94,968 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,968
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH callaré
Nearest frequency peer: callaré (-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 “caloría”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- calefón
calefón
5,036 corpus weight
- callaré
callaré
5,034 corpus weight
- caloría
caloría
5,033 corpus weight
- cambiadores
cambiadores
5,032 corpus weight
- cancelarán
cancelarán
5,030 corpus weight
- cancillerías
cancillerías
5,029 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “caloría” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cola larga: rango de “caloría” en español
Rare enough to double-check
caloría is uncommon Spanish at frequency #94,968 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kaloˈɾia]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for caloría, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is caloría, spelled C-A-L-O-R-Í-A.
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
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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