cátodo
[ˈkat̪oð̞o]
The verdict
“cátodo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #83,796 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,796
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Electrodo en el que se produce una reacción de reducción, mediante la cual un material, al ganar electrones, disminuye su estado de oxidación. Vinculado con el polo negativo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-catodo · cátodo · Spanish
cátodo · rank #83,796 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,796
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH curtidores
Nearest frequency peer: curtidores (-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 “cátodo”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- cumplamos
cumplamos
16,209 corpus weight
- curtida
curtida
16,207 corpus weight
- curtidores
curtidores
16,206 corpus weight
- cátodo
cátodo
16,205 corpus weight
- dadores
dadores
16,203 corpus weight
- dalias
dalias
16,201 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cátodo” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cátodo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkat̪oð̞o] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,796 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cátodo” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cátodo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #83,796 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkat̪oð̞o]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cátodo, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is cátodo, spelled C-Á-T-O-D-O.
Definition
- 1Electrodo en el que se produce una reacción de reducción, mediante la cual un material, al ganar electrones, disminuye su estado de oxidación. Vinculado con el polo negativo.
- 2En un diodo, terminal conectado a la región con dopaje tipo N, donde predominan las impurezas donantes. Suele ser el terminal que se polariza negativamente, es decir, por donde retorna la corriente en sentido convencional.
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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