gota
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,785
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
gota is aSpanishnoun. It means: Volumen pequeño de agua u otro líquido delimitado casi completamente por superficies libres y generalmente con forma cercana a la de una esfera. Pronounced [ˈgot̪a]. It ranks #6,785 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with gua and guía.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gota |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgot̪a] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #6,785 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for gota is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgot̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,785 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for gota, with forms such as "ggota", "goat", and "gotta". 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, "gua", "guía", "goza", 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 gota, spelled G-O-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Volumen pequeño de agua u otro líquido delimitado casi completamente por superficies libres y generalmente con forma cercana a la de una esfera.
- 2Enfermedad dolorosa que afecta a las articulaciones y al riñón, haciendo hinchar algunas partes del cuerpo.
- 3Pequeño tronco cónico en la parte superior de las edificaciones dóricas de la Antigua Grecia, colocado en serie debajo de los triglifos (adornos rectangulares verticales) como decoración y para repeler el agua. Desde abajo se ven como gotas₁.
- 4Enfermedad que sufren ciertas plantas a causa de un hongo que hace marchitar los tallos.
- 5Porción muy pequeña de algo.
- 6Medicamento líquido que se administra en pequeñas porciones, generalmente con cuentagotas o gotero.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggota,goat,gotta,gtoa,ogta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gota
Misspelling Variants of "gota"
Frequency rank: #6,785 in Spanish
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