acalco

//aːˈka.lːko// noun

Letters

6 characters

Language

Portuguese

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

acalco is aPortuguesenoun. It means: cais Pronounced /aːˈka.lːko/.

Key facts for acalco
PropertyValue
Headwordacalco
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/aːˈka.lːko/
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for acalco is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /aːˈka.lːko/. 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: "cais".

No misspelling variants are generated for acalco in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese 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 Portuguese form is acalco, spelled A-C-A-L-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    cais

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "acalco"?
"acalco" is spelled A-C-A-L-C-O. The IPA pronunciation is /aːˈka.lːko/.
What does "acalco" mean?
As a noun, "acalco" means: cais
How do you pronounce "acalco"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "acalco" is /aːˈka.lːko/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "acalco" come from?
"acalco" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.