canícula
[kaˈnikula]
The verdict
“canícula” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #93,847 among 77,812 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,847
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 77,812
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Parte del año en que hace mucho calor.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canícula |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈnikula] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #93,847 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “canícula” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
canícula is uncommon Spanish at frequency #93,847 among 77,812 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kaˈnikula]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for canícula in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is canícula, spelled C-A-N-Í-C-U-L-A.
Definition
- 1Parte del año en que hace mucho calor.
- 2Sequía interestival.
- 3Tiempo del nacimiento helíaco de Sirio, que antiguamente coincidia con la época más calurosa del año, pero que hoy no se verifica hasta fines de agosto.
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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Using “canícula”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-N-Í-C-U-L-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kaˈnikula] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.