pata

/[ˈpat̪a]/ noun

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.

Key facts for pata
PropertyValue
Headwordpata
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈpat̪a]
Letters4
Frequency rank#5,869
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    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. 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.
  2. 2
    Por extensión, cada una de las piezas de apoyo de una entidad o instrumento.
  3. 3
    Jocosa o familiarmente, pierna del ser humano.
  4. 4
    Persona a la que se está unido por lazos de amistad.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: paat,patta,ppata,ptaa

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pata

Misspelling Variants of "pata"

paat4patta5ppata5ptaa4
Misspelling Variants of "pata"

Frequency rank: #5,869 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pata"?
"pata" is spelled P-A-T-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈpat̪a].
What does "pata" mean?
As a noun, "pata" 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...
What words are commonly confused with "pata"?
"pata" is commonly confused with "PT", "paz", "pau". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pata"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pata" is [ˈpat̪a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pata" come from?
"pata" 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.