catán
Spanish, noun
catán is spelled C-A-T-Á-N (5 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish, the 76,156th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Catán is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “alternative form of catana” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, catan is a different word: “third-person plural present indicative of catar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Cualquiera de los peces del orden de los Lepisosteiformes (familia Lepisosteidae). Son de tamaño medio y con…”.
What does catán mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of catana
verb
- 1
third-person plural present indicative of catar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Cualquiera de los peces del orden de los Lepisosteiformes (familia Lepisosteidae). Son de tamaño medio y con forma alargada y puntiaguda. Habitan en la región de Norteamérica y Centroamérica.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of catán
- catanes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to catán
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is catán in Spanish?
catán appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).