catalejo
[kat̪aˈlexo]
The verdict
“catalejo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #91,703 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,703
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pequeño telescopio portátil, extensible y con una sola mira.
Corpus desk
Index ES-catalejo · catalejo · Spanish
catalejo · rank #91,703 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,703
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH casarán
Nearest frequency peer: casarán (-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 “catalejo”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Careaga
Careaga
8,303 corpus weight
- Carrion
Carrion
8,302 corpus weight
- casarán
casarán
8,299 corpus weight
- catalejo
catalejo
8,298 corpus weight
- catalogando
catalogando
8,296 corpus weight
- caz
caz
8,294 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “catalejo” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | catalejo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kat̪aˈlexo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,703 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “catalejo” en español
Rare enough to double-check
catalejo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #91,703 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kat̪aˈlexo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pequeño telescopio portátil, extensible y con una sola mira.".
No misspelling variants are generated for catalejo 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, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is catalejo, spelled C-A-T-A-L-E-J-O.
Definition
- 1Pequeño telescopio portátil, extensible y con una sola mira.
This word in other languages
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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