Real de Catorce
The verdict
“Real de Catorce” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a proper noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Población minera y turística ubicada en el estado de San Luis Potosí, México, ubicada a 260 km al noroeste de la ciudad de San Luis Potosi, fundada antes de 1772. Con una población de 1105 habitant...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Real de Catorce |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [reˈal̪ d̪e kaˈt̪oɾse] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Real de Catorce” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Real de Catorce is 15 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [reˈal̪ d̪e kaˈt̪oɾse]. 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: "Población minera y turística ubicada en el estado de San Luis Potosí, México, ubicada a 260 km al noroeste de la ciudad de San Luis Potosi, fundada antes de 1772. Con una población de 1105 habitant...".
No misspelling variants are generated for Real de Catorce 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 Real de Catorce, spelled R-E-A-L- -D-E- -C-A-T-O-R-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Población minera y turística ubicada en el estado de San Luis Potosí, México, ubicada a 260 km al noroeste de la ciudad de San Luis Potosi, fundada antes de 1772. Con una población de 1105 habitantes, según el censo del 2005.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Real de Catorce”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is R-E-A-L- -D-E- -C-A-T-O-R-C-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [reˈal̪ d̪e kaˈt̪oɾse] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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