Catherine
[ka.tʁin]
The verdict
“Catherine” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #12,324. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,324
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nombre de pila de mujer, equivalente del español Catalina.
Corpus desk
Index ES-catherine · Catherine · Spanish
Catherine · rank #12,324 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #12,324
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH casita
Nearest frequency peer: casita (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Catherine”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- cancelado
cancelado
87,681 corpus weight
- canela
canela
87,680 corpus weight
- casita
casita
87,678 corpus weight
- Catherine
Catherine
87,677 corpus weight
- caídas
caídas
87,676 corpus weight
- celdas
celdas
87,675 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Catherine” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Catherine |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ka.tʁin] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #12,324 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Dónde se sitúa “Catherine” en la frecuencia del español
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Catherine (IPA [ka.tʁin]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #12,324 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nombre de pila de mujer, equivalente del español Catalina.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Catherine, with forms such as "actherine", "cahterine", and "catehrine". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "catering", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 Catherine, spelled C-A-T-H-E-R-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Nombre de pila de mujer, equivalente del español Catalina.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- actherine
- cahterine
- catehrine
- catheirne
- catherien
- catherinne
- cathernie
- catherrine
- cathherine
- cathreine
- cattherine
- ccatherine
- ctaherine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Catherine - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Catherine", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "Catherine". Here's where to go from here.
- This headword has one recorded confusable pair with "catering". View pair
- 13 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #12,324 among Spanish headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more Spanish words in the "C" letter cohort. C–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.