cateto
/kɐ.ˈtɛ.tu/
The verdict
“cateto” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #95,527 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,527
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - cada um dos dois lados menores num triângulo retângulo (ao lado mais longo se dá o nome de hipotenusa)
Corpus desk
Index PT-cateto · cateto · Portuguese
cateto · rank #95,527 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,527
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH castra
Nearest frequency peer: castra (-3 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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “cateto”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- caiana
caiana
4,494 corpus weight
- carreras
carreras
4,479 corpus weight
- castra
castra
4,477 corpus weight
- cateto
cateto
4,474 corpus weight
- chambre
chambre
4,462 corpus weight
- chupões
chupões
4,455 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “cateto” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cateto |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɐ.ˈtɛ.tu/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #95,527 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cateto” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cateto is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #95,527 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kɐ.ˈtɛ.tu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "cada um dos dois lados menores num triângulo retângulo (ao lado mais longo se dá o nome de hipotenusa)".
No misspelling variants are generated for cateto in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is cateto, spelled C-A-T-E-T-O.
Definition
- 1cada um dos dois lados menores num triângulo retângulo (ao lado mais longo se dá o nome de hipotenusa)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cateto appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A soma dos quadrados dos catetos é igual ao quadrado da hipotenusa.
This word in other languages
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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