catéter
[kaˈt̪et̪eɾ]
The verdict
“catéter” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #42,326. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,326
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrumento en forma de manguera estrecha que se introduce en el cuerpo, y que dependiendo de su diseño, sirve para inyectar fármacos, drenar líquidos, administrar suero, explorar un órgano, etc.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cateter · catéter · Spanish
catéter · rank #42,326 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,326
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH centramos
Nearest frequency peer: centramos (+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 “catéter”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- cargaban
cargaban
57,681 corpus weight
- catastral
catastral
57,677 corpus weight
- catéter
catéter
57,675 corpus weight
- centramos
centramos
57,674 corpus weight
- chantajear
chantajear
57,672 corpus weight
- Chema
Chema
57,671 corpus weight
What this shows “catéter” 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 | catéter |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈt̪et̪eɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #42,326 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “catéter”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around catéter (IPA [kaˈt̪et̪eɾ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,326 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Instrumento en forma de manguera estrecha que se introduce en el cuerpo, y que dependiendo de su diseño, sirve para inyectar fármacos, drenar líquidos, administrar suero, explorar un órgano, etc.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for catéter, with forms such as "actéter", "cattéer", and "cattéter". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "cometer", "cadete", "Cañete", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is catéter, spelled C-A-T-É-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Instrumento en forma de manguera estrecha que se introduce en el cuerpo, y que dependiendo de su diseño, sirve para inyectar fármacos, drenar líquidos, administrar suero, explorar un órgano, etc.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- actéter
- cattéer
- cattéter
- catéetr
- catéterr
- catétre
- catétter
- caétter
- ccatéter
- ctaéter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of catéter - 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 "catéter", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).