catholic
/ˈkæθ(ə)lɪk/
The verdict
“catholic” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #54,736 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,736
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Universal.
Corpus desk
Index ES-catholic · catholic · Spanish
catholic · rank #54,736 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,736
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH catapulta
Nearest frequency peer: catapulta (-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 “catholic”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- carneros
carneros
45,269 corpus weight
- carretes
carretes
45,268 corpus weight
- cartográfica
cartográfica
45,267 corpus weight
- catapulta
catapulta
45,266 corpus weight
- catholic
catholic
45,265 corpus weight
- caución
caución
45,264 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “catholic” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | catholic |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈkæθ(ə)lɪk/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “catholic” en español
Rare enough to double-check
catholic is uncommon Spanish at frequency #54,736 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈkæθ(ə)lɪk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Universal.".
catholic doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is catholic, spelled C-A-T-H-O-L-I-C.
Definition
- 1Universal.
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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