cálcio

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for cálcio is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkałsju/. Corpus data places it at rank #12,642 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "elemento químico de símbolo Ca, número atômico 20 e massa atômica relativa 40,078; não é encontrado livre na natureza, apesar de ser o quinto elemento mais abundante do planeta; é encontrado na for...".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for cálcio, with forms such as "ccálcio", "clácio", and "cáclio". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "calo", "calmo", "caldo", 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 Portuguese form is cálcio, spelled C-Á-L-C-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.