botar
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#25,536
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
botar is aSpanishverb. It means: Echar de algún sitio, retirar de un grupo o lugar por la fuerza. Pronounced [boˈt̪aɾ]. Often confused with bots and both.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | botar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [boˈt̪aɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #25,536 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for botar is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [boˈt̪aɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #25,536 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for botar, with forms such as "bbotar", "boatr", and "botarr". 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, "bots", "both", "Boya", 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 botar, spelled B-O-T-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Echar de algún sitio, retirar de un grupo o lugar por la fuerza.
- 2Arrojar lo que no sirve al suelo, al canasto de los papeles, basurero u otro lugar, con el fin de deshacerse de ello.
- 3Arrojar un objeto elástico contra una superficie dura para que al chocar se devuelva o rebote.
- 4Echar al agua una embarcación nueva o recién reparada, para que navegue.
- 5Enderezar el timón hacia uno u otro lado, cambiar el rumbo.
- 6Patear la pelota detenida, para cumplir la sanción del árbitro.
- 7Despedir o expulsar a una persona de un sitio de trabajo o estudio.
- 8Perder un objeto dejándolo olvidado en algún sitio.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbotar,boatr,botarr,botra,bottar,btoar,obtar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for botar
Misspelling Variants of "botar"
Frequency rank: #25,536 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our Spanish index: