categoría
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,716
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
categoría is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cada uno de los grupos en que se pueden catalogar objetos o personas. Pronounced [kat̪eɣ̞oˈɾia]. It ranks #1,716 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with categorías and categórico.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | categoría |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kat̪eɣ̞oˈɾia] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for categoría is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kat̪eɣ̞oˈɾia]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,716 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for categoría, with forms such as "actegoría", "caetgoría", and "categgoría". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "categorías", "categórico", "categórica", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 categoría, spelled C-A-T-E-G-O-R-Í-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cada uno de los grupos en que se pueden catalogar objetos o personas.
- 2Cada uno de los grados establecidos en una carrera o profesión.
- 3Posición social de unas personas con respecto al resto.
- 4Uno de los distintos elementos de clasificación que se aplican habitualmente en las ciencias.
- 5Para Aristóteles era el reflejo de las propiedades de los fenómenos objetivos.
- 6Para Kant, cada una de las formas a priori, o conceptos puros, del entendimiento como la cualidad, la modalidad, la cantidad y la relación.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: actegoría,caetgoría,categgoría,categoraí,categorría,categoíra,categroía,cateogría,catgeoría,cattegoría,ccategoría,ctaegoría
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for categoría
Misspelling Variants of "categoría"
Frequency rank: #1,716 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: