calvario
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,032
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
calvario is aSpanishnoun. It means: Camino en que se representa con una serie de catorce imágenes de la Pasión, denominadas estaciones, correspondientes a incidentes particulares que, según la tradición cristiana, Jesús sufrió por la... Pronounced [kalˈβ̞aɾjo]. Often confused with canario.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calvario |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kalˈβ̞aɾjo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,032 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for calvario is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kalˈβ̞aɾjo]. Corpus data places it at rank #16,032 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for calvario, with forms such as "aclvario", "calavrio", and "calbario". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "canario", 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 calvario, spelled C-A-L-V-A-R-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Camino en que se representa con una serie de catorce imágenes de la Pasión, denominadas estaciones, correspondientes a incidentes particulares que, según la tradición cristiana, Jesús sufrió por la salvación de la humanidad basados en los evangelios y la tradición.
- 2Sitio, normalmente a las afueras de una población, donde hay muchas cruces.
- 3Cúmulo de padecimientos, desengaños, mortificaciones y pesares.
- 4Las deudas que uno ha contraído cuando son muchas.
- 5Una cuenta llena de rayas y cruces y por extension, las deudas excesivas y complicadas.
- 6Bóveda craneal.
- 7Osario, depósito de huesos.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aclvario,calavrio,calbario,callvario,calvairo,calvaroi,calvarrio,calvraio,calvvario,cavlario,ccalvario,clavario
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for calvario
Misspelling Variants of "calvario"
Frequency rank: #16,032 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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