gotas

/[ˈgot̪as]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,651

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

gotas is aSpanishnoun. It means: Medicamento o sustancia que se emplea o se dosifica por pequeñas cantidades (gotas), y generalmente se administra con gotero o cuentagotas. Pronounced [ˈgot̪as]. It ranks #9,651 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with goza and Goya.

Key facts for gotas
PropertyValue
Headwordgotas
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈgot̪as]
Letters5
Frequency rank#9,651
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of gotas in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for gotas is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgot̪as]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,651 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Medicamento o sustancia que se emplea o se dosifica por pequeñas cantidades (gotas), y generalmente se administra con gotero o cuentagotas.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for gotas, with forms such as "ggotas", "goats", and "gotass". 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, "goza", "Goya", "Gras", 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 gotas, spelled G-O-T-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Medicamento o sustancia que se emplea o se dosifica por pequeñas cantidades (gotas), y generalmente se administra con gotero o cuentagotas.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ggotas,goats,gotass,gotsa,gottas,gtoas,ogtas

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gotas

Misspelling Variants of "gotas"

ggotas6goats5gotass6gotsa5gottas6gtoas5ogtas5
Misspelling Variants of "gotas"

Frequency rank: #9,651 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gotas"?
"gotas" is spelled G-O-T-A-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈgot̪as].
What does "gotas" mean?
As a noun, "gotas" means: Medicamento o sustancia que se emplea o se dosifica por pequeñas cantidades (gotas), y generalmente se administra con gotero o cuentagotas.
What words are commonly confused with "gotas"?
"gotas" is commonly confused with "goza", "Goya", "Gras". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "gotas"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gotas" is [ˈgot̪as]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gotas" come from?
"gotas" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Spanish words

Other entries that begin with the letter G in our Spanish index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.