nata
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,184
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
nata is aSpanishnoun. It means: Capa cremosa que se forma encima de la leche, ya sea por dejarla en reposo o por hervirla y luego dejarla enfriar. Pronounced [ˈnat̪a]. Often confused with nt and not.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nata |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnat̪a] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #19,184 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for nata is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnat̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #19,184 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for nata, with forms such as "naat", "natta", and "nnata". 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, "nt", "not", "nea", 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 nata, spelled N-A-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Capa cremosa que se forma encima de la leche, ya sea por dejarla en reposo o por hervirla y luego dejarla enfriar.
- 2Substancia grasa que se encuentra en la leche cruda -no procesada-, que puede separarse de ésta por un proceso de centrifugado, o dejándola reposar. Se usa principalmente como ingrediente en repostería y para elaborar mantequilla.
- 3Capa análoga a la nata₁ que se forma en algunos licores.
- 4La parte más rica y selecta de una cosa.
- 5Material sin valor que se descarta de la mena al extraer un mineral de un yacimiento.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: naat,natta,nnata,ntaa
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Misspelling Variants of "nata"
Frequency rank: #19,184 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter N in our Spanish index: