piedra caliza

/[ˈpjeð̞ɾa kaˈlisa]/ phrase

Letters

13 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

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0

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piedra caliza is aSpanishphrase. It means: Roca sedimentaria porosa de origen químico, formada mineralógicamente por carbonatos, principalmente carbonato de calcio. Pronounced [ˈpjeð̞ɾa kaˈlisa].

Key facts for piedra caliza
PropertyValue
Headwordpiedra caliza
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈpjeð̞ɾa kaˈlisa]
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

piedra caliza is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for piedra caliza is 13 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpjeð̞ɾa kaˈlisa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Roca sedimentaria porosa de origen químico, formada mineralógicamente por carbonatos, principalmente carbonato de calcio.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for piedra caliza in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 piedra caliza, spelled P-I-E-D-R-A- -C-A-L-I-Z-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Roca sedimentaria porosa de origen químico, formada mineralógicamente por carbonatos, principalmente carbonato de calcio.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "piedra caliza"?
"piedra caliza" is spelled P-I-E-D-R-A- -C-A-L-I-Z-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈpjeð̞ɾa kaˈlisa].
What does "piedra caliza" mean?
As a phrase, "piedra caliza" means: Roca sedimentaria porosa de origen químico, formada mineralógicamente por carbonatos, principalmente carbonato de calcio.
How do you pronounce "piedra caliza"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "piedra caliza" is [ˈpjeð̞ɾa kaˈlisa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "piedra caliza" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.