cate
[ˈkat̪e]
The verdict
“cate” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #38,559. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,559
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Suspenso de un test, examen o asignatura.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cate · cate · Spanish
cate · rank #38,559 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,559
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH catacumbas
Nearest frequency peer: catacumbas (-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 “cate”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Cartes
Cartes
61,446 corpus weight
- cartulina
cartulina
61,445 corpus weight
- catacumbas
catacumbas
61,443 corpus weight
- cate
cate
61,442 corpus weight
- cazado
cazado
61,440 corpus weight
- celibato
celibato
61,438 corpus weight
What this shows “cate” 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 | cate |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkat̪e] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #38,559 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “cate”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around cate (IPA [ˈkat̪e]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,559 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Suspenso de un test, examen o asignatura.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for cate, with forms such as "acte", "caet", and "catte". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ce", "che", "cut", 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, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is cate, spelled C-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Suspenso de un test, examen o asignatura.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acte
- caet
- catte
- ccate
- ctae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cate - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "cate", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).