cátodo
The verdict
“cátodo” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #83,796 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #83,796
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: 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.
| 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) |
Where “cátodo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cátodo is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkat̪oð̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #83,796 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for cátodo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is cátodo, spelled C-Á-T-O-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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Using “cátodo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-Á-T-O-D-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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