catasta
[kaˈt̪ast̪a]
The verdict
“catasta” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tablado sobre el que se exponían, desnudos, a los esclavos destinados a la venta apra que los mercaderes pudieran examinarlos detenidamente
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | catasta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈt̪ast̪a] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “catasta” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for catasta is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈt̪ast̪a]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for catasta in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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 catasta, spelled C-A-T-A-S-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tablado sobre el que se exponían, desnudos, a los esclavos destinados a la venta apra que los mercaderes pudieran examinarlos detenidamente
- 2Tablado sobre el cual sufrían suplicio los condenados y en este sentido fue empleada esta palabra por los autores cristianos que hablan de la muerte de los mártires.
- 3Potro o suplicio en forma de aspa o Cruz de San Andrés, a la que se ataba al acusado, separando después, por medio de cuerdas y garruchas, los brazos del aspa hasta descoyuntar por completo los miembros del cuerpo.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “catasta”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-T-A-S-T-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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