pata
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,869
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pata is aSpanishnoun. It means: Extremidad de los animales utilizada para la locomoción en tierra, que va en número de un único par en las aves y los primates hasta unos 200 pares en los miriápodos de la clase Diplopoda. Funciona... Pronounced [ˈpat̪a]. It ranks #5,869 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with PT and paz.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pata |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpat̪a] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,869 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pata is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpat̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,869 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 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 pata, with forms such as "paat", "patta", and "ppata". 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, "PT", "paz", "pau", 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 pata, spelled P-A-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Extremidad de los animales utilizada para la locomoción en tierra, que va en número de un único par en las aves y los primates hasta unos 200 pares en los miriápodos de la clase Diplopoda. Funcionalmente similar, es sin embargo evolutivamente muy diferente entre invertebrados y vertebrados. En estos últimos está por lo general dividida claramente en dos secciones, articuladas en la rodilla.
- 2Por extensión, cada una de las piezas de apoyo de una entidad o instrumento.
- 3Jocosa o familiarmente, pierna del ser humano.
- 4Persona a la que se está unido por lazos de amistad.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: paat,patta,ppata,ptaa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pata
Misspelling Variants of "pata"
Frequency rank: #5,869 in Spanish
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