Kota

/[ˈkot̪a]/ name

The verdict

“Kota” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #70,395 in Spanish word frequency and used as a proper noun.

#70,395
frequency rank, Spanish
4
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Ciudad de India, de Rajastán.

Key facts for Kota
PropertyValue
HeadwordKota
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechProper noun
IPA[ˈkot̪a]
Letters4
Frequency rank#70,395
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Kota” sits in Spanish frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). Kota lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for Kota is 4 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkot̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #70,395 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ciudad de India, de Rajastán.".

No misspelling variants are generated for Kota in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 Kota, spelled K-O-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ciudad de India, de Rajastán.

Frequency rank: #70,395 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Kota"?
"Kota" is spelled K-O-T-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈkot̪a].
What does "Kota" mean?
As a proper noun, "Kota" means: Ciudad de India, de Rajastán.
How do you pronounce "Kota"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Kota" is [ˈkot̪a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Kota" come from?
"Kota" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “Kota”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Spanish spelling is K-O-T-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [ˈkot̪a] (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

Nearby Spanish words

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

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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.