categoría

/[kat̪eɣ̞oˈɾia]/ noun

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.

Key facts for categoría
PropertyValue
Headwordcategoría
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[kat̪eɣ̞oˈɾia]
Letters9
Frequency rank#1,716
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of categoría in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Cada uno de los grupos en que se pueden catalogar objetos o personas.
  2. 2
    Cada uno de los grados establecidos en una carrera o profesión.
  3. 3
    Posición social de unas personas con respecto al resto.
  4. 4
    Uno de los distintos elementos de clasificación que se aplican habitualmente en las ciencias.
  5. 5
    Para Aristóteles era el reflejo de las propiedades de los fenómenos objetivos.
  6. 6
    Para Kant, cada una de las formas a priori, o conceptos puros, del entendimiento como la cualidad, la modalidad, la cantidad y la relación.

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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"

actegoría9caetgoría9categgoría10categoraí9categorría10categoíra9categroía9cateogría9
Misspelling Variants of "categoría"

Frequency rank: #1,716 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "categoría"?
"categoría" is spelled C-A-T-E-G-O-R-Í-A. The IPA pronunciation is [kat̪eɣ̞oˈɾia].
What does "categoría" mean?
As a noun, "categoría" means: Cada uno de los grupos en que se pueden catalogar objetos o personas.
What words are commonly confused with "categoría"?
"categoría" is commonly confused with "categorías", "categórico", "categórica". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "categoría"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "categoría" is [kat̪eɣ̞oˈɾia]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "categoría" come from?
"categoría" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.