motas
[ˈmot̪as]
The verdict
“motas” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #67,940 among 3,868 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,940
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del plural de mota.
Corpus desk
Index ES-motas · motas · Spanish
motas · rank #67,940 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,940
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH motes
Nearest frequency peer: motes (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “motas”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- morderse
morderse
32,064 corpus weight
- morfológico
morfológico
32,063 corpus weight
- motas
motas
32,061 corpus weight
- motes
motes
32,060 corpus weight
- musgos
musgos
32,057 corpus weight
- myra
myra
32,056 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “motas” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | motas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmot̪as] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “motas” en español
Rare enough to double-check
motas is uncommon Spanish at frequency #67,940 among 3,868 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈmot̪as]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forma del plural de mota.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for motas in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is motas, spelled M-O-T-A-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de mota.
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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