ojo de gato
The verdict
“ojo de gato” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Dispositivo de señalización retrorreflectivo ubicado en el suelo a los costados de un camino para marcar los límites, de modo que se pueda ver incluso en la noche.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ojo de gato |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈoxo ð̞e ˈɣ̞at̪o] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ojo de gato” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ojo de gato is 11 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈoxo ð̞e ˈɣ̞at̪o]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Dispositivo de señalización retrorreflectivo ubicado en el suelo a los costados de un camino para marcar los límites, de modo que se pueda ver incluso en la noche.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ojo de gato 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 ojo de gato, spelled O-J-O- -D-E- -G-A-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dispositivo de señalización retrorreflectivo ubicado en el suelo a los costados de un camino para marcar los límites, de modo que se pueda ver incluso en la noche.
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Using “ojo de gato”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is O-J-O- -D-E- -G-A-T-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈoxo ð̞e ˈɣ̞at̪o] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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