boniato

/[boˈnjat̪o]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#72,549

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

boniato is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Ipomoea batatas) Planta herbácea de la familia de las convolvuláceas, de origen americano y extensamente cultivada por su raíz tuberosa, empleada en gastronomía. Es una enredadera perenne, de hoja... Pronounced [boˈnjat̪o].

Key facts for boniato
PropertyValue
Headwordboniato
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[boˈnjat̪o]
Letters7
Frequency rank#72,549
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of boniato in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for boniato is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [boˈnjat̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #72,549 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.

No misspelling variants are generated for boniato 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 boniato, spelled B-O-N-I-A-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Ipomoea batatas) Planta herbácea de la familia de las convolvuláceas, de origen americano 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 atractivas. La raíz es larga y fusiforme, con la piel pardorrojiza a púrpura, y pulpa similarmente variable. Cultivada en América y en la Polinesia desde hace miles de años, llegó a Europa en el siglo XVI y se ha difundido ampliamente en todo el mundo.
  2. 2
    Raíz comestible, en forma de esta planta. 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.

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This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #72,549 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "boniato"?
"boniato" is spelled B-O-N-I-A-T-O. The IPA pronunciation is [boˈnjat̪o].
What does "boniato" mean?
As a noun, "boniato" means: (Ipomoea batatas) Planta herbácea de la familia de las convolvuláceas, de origen americano y extensamente cultivada por su raíz tuberosa, empleada en gastronomía. Es una enredadera perenne, de hoja...
How do you pronounce "boniato"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "boniato" is [boˈnjat̪o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.