karate
[kaˈɾat̪e]
The verdict
“karate” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #20,105. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,105
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 248
- “K” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arte marcial de origen japonés, desarrollado a comienzos del siglo XX a partir de estilos okinawenses más antiguos, hoy practicada como deporte y medio de autodefensa en todo el mundo. Es un arte c...
Corpus desk
Index ES-karate · karate · Spanish
karate · rank #20,105 · 8 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,105
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 248
- PHOTO-FINISH jurada
Nearest frequency peer: jurada (-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 “karate”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- jos
jos
79,899 corpus weight
- jugos
jugos
79,898 corpus weight
- jurada
jurada
79,897 corpus weight
- karate
karate
79,896 corpus weight
- klein
klein
79,895 corpus weight
- lagarto
lagarto
79,894 corpus weight
What this shows “karate” 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 | karate |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈɾat̪e] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,105 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “karate”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around karate (IPA [kaˈɾat̪e]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,105 among 248 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Arte marcial de origen japonés, desarrollado a comienzos del siglo XX a partir de estilos okinawenses más antiguos, hoy practicada como deporte y medio de autodefensa en todo el mundo. Es un arte c...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for karate, with forms such as "akrate", "kaarte", and "karaet". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Kate", "kart", "kara", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is karate, spelled K-A-R-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Arte marcial de origen japonés, desarrollado a comienzos del siglo XX a partir de estilos okinawenses más antiguos, hoy practicada como deporte y medio de autodefensa en todo el mundo. Es un arte característicamente externo, empleando golpes de puño y pie, posturas más o menos rígidas y bloqueos.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- akrate
- kaarte
- karaet
- karatte
- karrate
- kartae
- kkarate
- kraate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of karate - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "karate", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).