cárcel
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,503
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cárcel is aSpanishnoun. It means: Establecimiento destinado al alojamiento de los penados a privación de libertad Pronounced [ˈkaɾsel]. It ranks #1,503 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with Carl and care.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cárcel |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkaɾsel] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,503 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cárcel is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkaɾsel]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,503 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for cárcel, with forms such as "ccárcel", "crácel", and "cácrel". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Carl", "care", "carne", and more, 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 cárcel, spelled C-Á-R-C-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Establecimiento destinado al alojamiento de los penados a privación de libertad
- 2Pena de privación de libertad que se impone a los condenados por algún delito
- 3Elemento compuesto por cuatro piezas, dos horizontales y dos verticales, que sirve para soportar los empujes que reciben los tapiales en el momento de la construcción de las tapias
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccárcel,crácel,cácrel,cárccel,cárcell,cárcle,cárecl,cárrcel,cársel,ácrcel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "cárcel"
Frequency rank: #1,503 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: