Cataluña
[kat̪aˈluɲa]
The verdict
“Cataluña” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #2,238. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,238
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Comunidad autónoma de España formada por las provincias de Lérida, Gerona, Barcelona y Tarragona.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cataluna · Cataluña · Spanish
Cataluña · rank #2,238 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,238
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH castillo
Nearest frequency peer: castillo (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “Cataluña”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- artes
artes
97,766 corpus weight
- campeón
campeón
97,765 corpus weight
- castillo
castillo
97,764 corpus weight
- Cataluña
Cataluña
97,763 corpus weight
- civiles
civiles
97,762 corpus weight
- colectivo
colectivo
97,760 corpus weight
What this shows “Cataluña” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cataluña |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [kat̪aˈluɲa] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,238 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “Cataluña”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Cataluña (IPA [kat̪aˈluɲa]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #2,238 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Cataluña, with forms such as "actaluña", "caatluña", and "catalluña". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Catarina", "Catalunya", "catalán", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is Cataluña, spelled C-A-T-A-L-U-Ñ-A.
Definition
- 1Comunidad autónoma de España formada por las provincias de Lérida, Gerona, Barcelona y Tarragona.
- 2Territorio histórico situado en la actual Comunidad Autónoma de Cataluña y el Rosellón.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- actaluña
- caatluña
- catalluña
- cataluañ
- catalñua
- cataulña
- catlauña
- cattaluña
- ccataluña
- ctaaluña
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Cataluña - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Cataluña", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).