cateo
[kaˈt̪eo]
The verdict
“cateo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #52,132 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,132
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exploración y busca de una veta de mineral.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cateo · cateo · Spanish
cateo · rank #52,132 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,132
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH casaba
Nearest frequency peer: casaba (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “cateo”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- canalizado
canalizado
47,873 corpus weight
- canasto
canasto
47,872 corpus weight
- casaba
casaba
47,870 corpus weight
- cateo
cateo
47,869 corpus weight
- cefalea
cefalea
47,868 corpus weight
- celuloide
celuloide
47,867 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cateo” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cateo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈt̪eo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,132 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cateo” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cateo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #52,132 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kaˈt̪eo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for cateo in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is cateo, spelled C-A-T-E-O.
Definition
- 1Exploración y busca de una veta de mineral.
- 2Acto de estar al acecho, a la expectativa de una ocasión favorable.
- 3Acción policial de catear, revisar una persona o allanar una morada.
Synonyms
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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