canícula
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#93,847
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
canícula is aSpanishnoun. It means: Parte del año en que hace mucho calor. Pronounced [kaˈnikula].
| 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) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for canícula is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈnikula]. Corpus data places it at rank #93,847 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for canícula in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.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 canícula, spelled C-A-N-Í-C-U-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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
Frequency rank: #93,847 in Spanish
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