catarsis
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#31,255
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
catarsis is aSpanishnoun. It means: Técnica terapéutica que libera, a través de la palabra, las ideas o emociones relegadas al inconsciente por un mecanismo de defensa. Pronounced [kaˈt̪aɾsis].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | catarsis |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈt̪aɾsis] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #31,255 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for catarsis is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈt̪aɾsis]. Corpus data places it at rank #31,255 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for catarsis, with forms such as "actarsis", "caatrsis", and "catarcis". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is catarsis, spelled C-A-T-A-R-S-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Técnica terapéutica que libera, a través de la palabra, las ideas o emociones relegadas al inconsciente por un mecanismo de defensa.
- 2Eliminación figurativa de emociones especialmente pena y miedo.
- 3Expulsión de sustancias tóxicas para el organismo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: actarsis,caatrsis,catarcis,catariss,catarrsis,catarsiss,catarssi,catarssis,catasris,catrasis,cattarsis,ccatarsis,ctaarsis
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for catarsis
Misspelling Variants of "catarsis"
Frequency rank: #31,255 in Spanish
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