acate
[aˈkat̪e]
The verdict
“acate” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #92,600 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,600
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de subjuntivo de acatar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-acate · acate · Spanish
acate · rank #92,600 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,600
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH aceitado
Nearest frequency peer: aceitado (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “acate”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- abordaban
abordaban
7,405 corpus weight
- absolutely
absolutely
7,403 corpus weight
- acate
acate
7,401 corpus weight
- aceitado
aceitado
7,400 corpus weight
- acentuados
acentuados
7,399 corpus weight
- aconsejados
aconsejados
7,398 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “acate” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acate |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [aˈkat̪e] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #92,600 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “acate” en español
Rare enough to double-check
acate is uncommon Spanish at frequency #92,600 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [aˈkat̪e]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for acate in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is acate, spelled A-C-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de subjuntivo de acatar.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de acatar.
- 3Segunda persona del singular (usted) del imperativo de acatar.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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