batata
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#36,426
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
batata is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Ipomoea batatas) Planta herbácea de la familia de las convolvuláceas, de origen latinoamericano y extensamente cultivada por su raíz tuberosa, empleada en gastronomía. Es una enredadera perenne, d... Pronounced [baˈt̪at̪a]. Often confused with beata and batida.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | batata |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [baˈt̪at̪a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #36,426 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for batata is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [baˈt̪at̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #36,426 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for batata, with forms such as "abtata", "baatta", and "bataat". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "beata", "batida", "batuta", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 batata, spelled B-A-T-A-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Ipomoea batatas) Planta herbácea de la familia de las convolvuláceas, de origen latinoamericano y extensamente cultivada por su raíz tuberosa, empleada en gastronomía. Es una enredadera perenne, de hojas cordiformes o palmatilobuladas, alternas, pecioladas, y flores simpétalas, pentámeras, de buen tamaño y muy atractivas. La raíz es larga y fusiforme, con la piel pardorrojiza a púrpura, y pulpa similarmente variable. Cultivada en América desde la época precolombina, llegó a Europa en el siglo XVI y se ha difundido ampliamente en todo el mundo.
- 2Raíz comestible, en forma de tubérculo, de la batata₁. Es rica en fécula y fibra, y de sabor dulce que permite su uso en una gran variedad de preparaciones, tanto de plato como de postre.
- 3Dícese del músculo de la pantorrilla.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abtata,baatta,bataat,batatta,battaa,battata,bbatata,btaata,vatata
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "batata"
Frequency rank: #36,426 in Spanish
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