OTAN

/[ˈot̪ãn]/ name

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,167

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

OTAN is aSpanishname. It means: Organización internacional política y militar creada como resultado de las negociaciones entre los signatarios del Tratado de Bruselas (Bélgica, Francia, Luxemburgo, Holanda y el Reino Unido), Esta... Pronounced [ˈot̪ãn]. It ranks #9,167 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with own and otro.

Key facts for OTAN
PropertyValue
HeadwordOTAN
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechName
IPA[ˈot̪ãn]
Letters4
Frequency rank#9,167
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of OTAN in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for OTAN is 4 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈot̪ãn]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,167 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Organización internacional política y militar creada como resultado de las negociaciones entre los signatarios del Tratado de Bruselas (Bélgica, Francia, Luxemburgo, Holanda y el Reino Unido), Esta...".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for OTAN, with forms such as "oatn", "otann", and "otna". 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, "own", "otro", "otra", 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 OTAN, spelled O-T-A-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Organización internacional política y militar creada como resultado de las negociaciones entre los signatarios del Tratado de Bruselas (Bélgica, Francia, Luxemburgo, Holanda y el Reino Unido), Estados Unidos y Canadá, así como otros cinco países de Europa Occidental invitados a participar (Dinamarca, Italia, Islandia, Noruega y Portugal), con el objetivo de organizar Europa ante la amenaza de la Unión Soviética después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: oatn,otann,otna,ottan,toan

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for OTAN

Misspelling Variants of "OTAN"

oatn4otann5otna4ottan5toan4
Misspelling Variants of "OTAN"

Frequency rank: #9,167 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "OTAN"?
"OTAN" is spelled O-T-A-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈot̪ãn].
What does "OTAN" mean?
As a name, "OTAN" means: Organización internacional política y militar creada como resultado de las negociaciones entre los signatarios del Tratado de Bruselas (Bélgica, Francia, Luxemburgo, Holanda y el Reino Unido), Esta...
What words are commonly confused with "OTAN"?
"OTAN" is commonly confused with "own", "otro", "otra". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "OTAN"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "OTAN" is [ˈot̪ãn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "OTAN" come from?
"OTAN" 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.