botar la bola
[boˈt̪aɾ la ˈβ̞ola]
The verdict
“botar la bola” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Cometer un error de dimensiones considerables o desperdiciar una oportunidad maravillosa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | botar la bola |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [boˈt̪aɾ la ˈβ̞ola] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “botar la bola” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for botar la bola is 13 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [boˈt̪aɾ la ˈβ̞ola]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Cometer un error de dimensiones considerables o desperdiciar una oportunidad maravillosa.".
No misspelling variants are generated for botar la bola 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 botar la bola, spelled B-O-T-A-R- -L-A- -B-O-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cometer un error de dimensiones considerables o desperdiciar una oportunidad maravillosa.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “botar la bola”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is B-O-T-A-R- -L-A- -B-O-L-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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