coleta
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#34,011
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
coleta is aSpanishnoun. It means: Porción de cabello que se sujeta junto a su raíz, y se enrolla o deja caer. Pronounced [koˈlet̪a]. Often confused with Cota and costa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coleta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [koˈlet̪a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #34,011 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for coleta is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [koˈlet̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #34,011 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for coleta, with forms such as "ccoleta", "cloeta", and "coelta". 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, "Cota", "costa", "Corta", 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 coleta, spelled C-O-L-E-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Porción de cabello que se sujeta junto a su raíz, y se enrolla o deja caer.
- 2En particular, coleta₁ que se hace recogiendo todo el cabello en la nuca.
- 3Por extensión, lazo textil o elástico con que se recoge el cabello en una coleta₁ o ₂.
- 4Por extensión, cabello largo que se deja crecer junto a la nuca.
- 5Lienzo fino y poco tupido que se usa para forros de prendas de vestir.
- 6Tela fuerte y ligera de algodón, usualmente teñida de amarillo, que se fabricaba antiguamente en la ciudad china de Nanking.
- 7Tela ligera de algodón, hilada a modo del tafetán y aprestada por un lado, usada habitualmente para piezas efímeras.
- 8Tela recia y barata de fibra de cáñamo.
- 9Breve añadido que se hace al final de un texto o discurso.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccoleta,cloeta,coelta,coleat,coletta,colleta,coltea,ocleta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for coleta
Misspelling Variants of "coleta"
Frequency rank: #34,011 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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