bagatela
[baɣ̞aˈt̪ela]
The verdict
“bagatela” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #86,505 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #86,505
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Cosa de poco valor o importancia.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bagatela |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [baɣ̞aˈt̪ela] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,505 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bagatela” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for bagatela is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [baɣ̞aˈt̪ela]. Corpus data places it at rank #86,505 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bagatela, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is bagatela, spelled B-A-G-A-T-E-L-A.
Definition
- 1Cosa de poco valor o importancia.
- 2Por extensión, asunto o problema de poco valor o importancia.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “bagatela”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is B-A-G-A-T-E-L-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [baɣ̞aˈt̪ela] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.