català
[kə.təˈɫa]
The verdict
“català” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #52,764 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,764
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Catalán (de Cataluña)
Corpus desk
Index ES-catala · català · Spanish
català · rank #52,764 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,764
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cautelosa
Nearest frequency peer: cautelosa (+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 “català”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- carmín
carmín
47,241 corpus weight
- carrizal
carrizal
47,239 corpus weight
- català
català
47,237 corpus weight
- cautelosa
cautelosa
47,236 corpus weight
- cautelosos
cautelosos
47,235 corpus weight
- cercada
cercada
47,232 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “català” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | català |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [kə.təˈɫa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,764 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “català” en español
Rare enough to double-check
català is uncommon Spanish at frequency #52,764 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [kə.təˈɫa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Catalán (de Cataluña)".
No generated misspelling entries exist for català in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is català, spelled C-A-T-A-L-À.
Definition
- 1Catalán (de Cataluña)
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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