cotejar
[kot̪eˈxaɾ]
The verdict
“cotejar” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #50,165 in Spanish word frequency and used as a verb.
- #50,165
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Confrontar o comparar dos o más cosas para apreciar sus semejanzas y diferencias, especialmente hablando de una copia con su original.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cotejar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kot̪eˈxaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,165 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cotejar” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cotejar is 7 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kot̪eˈxaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #50,165 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Confrontar o comparar dos o más cosas para apreciar sus semejanzas y diferencias, especialmente hablando de una copia con su original.".
cotejar has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is cotejar, spelled C-O-T-E-J-A-R.
Definition
- 1Confrontar o comparar dos o más cosas para apreciar sus semejanzas y diferencias, especialmente hablando de una copia con su original.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “cotejar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-O-T-E-J-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kot̪eˈxaɾ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.