Real de Catorce

/[reˈal̪ d̪e kaˈt̪oɾse]/ name

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
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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...

Key facts for Real de Catorce
PropertyValue
HeadwordReal de Catorce
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechProper noun
IPA[reˈal̪ d̪e kaˈt̪oɾse]
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Real de Catorce” sits in Spanish frequency

Real de Catorce falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Spanish words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

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    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 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Real de Catorce"?
"Real de Catorce" is spelled R-E-A-L- -D-E- -C-A-T-O-R-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is [reˈal̪ d̪e kaˈt̪oɾse].
What does "Real de Catorce" mean?
As a proper noun, "Real de Catorce" means: 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...
How do you pronounce "Real de Catorce"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Real de Catorce" is [reˈal̪ d̪e kaˈt̪oɾse]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “Real de Catorce”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • 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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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

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