ojota

/[oˈxot̪a]/ noun

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Spanish

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ojota is aSpanishnoun. It means: Especie de sandalia usada antaño por los indigenas de Perú y Chile, hecha con piel y fibras vegetales. Pronounced [oˈxot̪a].

Key facts for ojota
PropertyValue
Headwordojota
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[oˈxot̪a]
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

ojota is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for ojota is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [oˈxot̪a]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ojota in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 ojota, spelled O-J-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
    Especie de sandalia usada antaño por los indigenas de Perú y Chile, hecha con piel y fibras vegetales.
  2. 2
    Calzado campesino que consta de una gruesa suela, generalmente hecha del recorte de un neumático, y un par de tiras de cuero u otro material, que parten de entre los dedos pulgar e índice y van hacia el talón para sujetar el pie.
  3. 3
    Calzado rústico semejante a un mocasín que se hacía de una pieza de cuero crudo de animal y se cerraba mediante cordones del mismo material.
  4. 4
    Piel de llama curtida.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ojota"?
"ojota" is spelled O-J-O-T-A. The IPA pronunciation is [oˈxot̪a].
What does "ojota" mean?
As a noun, "ojota" means: Especie de sandalia usada antaño por los indigenas de Perú y Chile, hecha con piel y fibras vegetales.
How do you pronounce "ojota"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ojota" is [oˈxot̪a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ojota" come from?
"ojota" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.