catión
Spanish, noun/kaˈtjon/
catión is spelled C-A-T-I-Ó-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Spanish, the 105,087th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Catión is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “cation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Ion de carga eléctrica positiva”.
What does catión mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecation
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ion de carga eléctrica positiva 2. Ion que se desprende del cátodo durante el proceso de electrólisis
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of catión
- cationes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce catión?
- /kaˈtjon/
- [kaˈt̪jõn]
- [kat̪iˈõn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to catión
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is catión in Spanish?
catión appears about once in every 8 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).