cateto
[kaˈt̪et̪o]
The verdict
“cateto” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #66,750 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,750
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - cualquiera de los lados menores de un triángulo rectangulo
Corpus desk
Index ES-cateto · cateto · Spanish
cateto · rank #66,750 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,750
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH category
Nearest frequency peer: category (-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 “cateto”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Cascante
Cascante
33,254 corpus weight
- caserón
caserón
33,253 corpus weight
- category
category
33,252 corpus weight
- cateto
cateto
33,251 corpus weight
- cañonazo
cañonazo
33,249 corpus weight
- caóticos
caóticos
33,248 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cateto” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cateto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈt̪et̪o] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,750 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cateto” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cateto is uncommon Spanish at frequency #66,750 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kaˈt̪et̪o]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "cualquiera de los lados menores de un triángulo rectangulo".
cateto doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is cateto, spelled C-A-T-E-T-O.
Definition
- 1cualquiera de los lados menores de un triángulo rectangulo
This word in other languages
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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