cats
/kæts/
The verdict
“cats” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #47,632. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,632
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del plural de cat.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cats · cats · Spanish
cats · rank #47,632 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,632
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH categórico
Nearest frequency peer: categórico (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “cats”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- casamientos
casamientos
52,373 corpus weight
- castigadas
castigadas
52,372 corpus weight
- catastrófic…
catastróficos
52,371 corpus weight
- categórico
categórico
52,370 corpus weight
- cats
cats
52,369 corpus weight
- cedo
cedo
52,366 corpus weight
What this shows “cats” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cats |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kæts/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #47,632 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “cats”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around cats (IPA /kæts/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,632 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Forma del plural de cat.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for cats, with forms such as "acts", "catss", and "catts". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cis", "ces", "cos", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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. The correct Spanish form is cats, spelled C-A-T-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de cat.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acts
- catss
- catts
- ccats
- ctas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cats - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cats", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).