catarro
[kaˈt̪aro]
The verdict
“catarro” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #49,499. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,499
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enfermedad de las vías respiratorias usualmente acompañada de los siguientes síntomas: congestión de las vías respiratorias, irritación e inflamación de la membrana mucosa que cubre la nariz y la g...
Corpus desk
Index ES-catarro · catarro · Spanish
catarro · rank #49,499 · 8 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,499
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH carnada
Nearest frequency peer: carnada (-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 “catarro”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- cariñosas
cariñosas
50,506 corpus weight
- carnada
carnada
50,503 corpus weight
- catarro
catarro
50,502 corpus weight
- catre
catre
50,501 corpus weight
- cavernícola
cavernícola
50,500 corpus weight
- ceba
ceba
50,499 corpus weight
What this shows “catarro” 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 | catarro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈt̪aro] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #49,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “catarro”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around catarro (IPA [kaˈt̪aro]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,499 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Enfermedad de las vías respiratorias usualmente acompañada de los siguientes síntomas: congestión de las vías respiratorias, irritación e inflamación de la membrana mucosa que cubre la nariz y la g...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for catarro, with forms such as "actarro", "caatrro", and "cataro". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "charro", "cigarro", "chatarra", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is catarro, spelled C-A-T-A-R-R-O.
Definition
- 1Enfermedad de las vías respiratorias usualmente acompañada de los siguientes síntomas: congestión de las vías respiratorias, irritación e inflamación de la membrana mucosa que cubre la nariz y la garganta, expectoración, tos, estornudos, fiebre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- actarro
- caatrro
- cataro
- cataror
- catraro
- cattarro
- ccatarro
- ctaarro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of catarro - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).