katakana

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for katakana is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kat̪aˈkana]. Corpus data places it at rank #79,279 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Silabario japonés, el más sencillo de los sistemas de escritura usados para esta lengua, que se emplea sobre todo para transliterar palabras de origen extranjero, nombres científicos, personales, u...".

No misspelling variants are generated for katakana 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 katakana, spelled K-A-T-A-K-A-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.