IATA
[ˈjat̪a]
The verdict
“IATA” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #68,642 in Spanish word frequency and used as an abbreviation.
- #68,642
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Instrumento para la cooperación entre aerolíneas, promoviendo la seguridad, fiabilidad, confianza y economía en el transporte aéreo en beneficio económico de sus accionistas privados.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | IATA |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [ˈjat̪a] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #68,642 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “IATA” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for IATA is 4 letters long, classified as an abbreviation, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈjat̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #68,642 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Instrumento para la cooperación entre aerolíneas, promoviendo la seguridad, fiabilidad, confianza y economía en el transporte aéreo en beneficio económico de sus accionistas privados.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for IATA, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is IATA, spelled I-A-T-A.
Definition
- 1Instrumento para la cooperación entre aerolíneas, promoviendo la seguridad, fiabilidad, confianza y economía en el transporte aéreo en beneficio económico de sus accionistas privados.
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 “IATA”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is I-A-T-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈjat̪a] (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.