cátodo
[ˈkat̪oð̞o]
The verdict
“cátodo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #83,796 among 77,812 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,796
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 77,812
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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.
| 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
Rare enough to double-check
cátodo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #83,796 among 77,812 “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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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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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.