mota
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,095
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
mota is aSpanishnoun. It means: Conjunto pequeño de partículas, usualmente aplicado al polvo o similares. Pronounced [ˈmot̪a]. Often confused with mou and moto.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mota |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmot̪a] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #13,095 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mota is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmot̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #13,095 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 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 mota, with forms such as "mmota", "moat", and "motta". 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, "mou", "moto", "mozo", 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 mota, spelled M-O-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Conjunto pequeño de partículas, usualmente aplicado al polvo o similares.
- 2Se aplica a varios objetos pequeños, por lo general insignificantes.
- 3Mancha pequeña.
- 4Pequeña imperfección.
- 5Bloque de tierra que se usa para cerrar una acequia o bien detener el paso del agua.
- 6Elevación leve en un terreno plano.
- 7Marihuana.
- 8Vagina.^([cita requerida])
- 9Conjunto de árboles.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmota,moat,motta,mtoa,omta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mota
Misspelling Variants of "mota"
Frequency rank: #13,095 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our Spanish index: