patata
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,664
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
patata is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Solanum tuberosum) Planta herbácea, caducifolia, de la familia de las solanáceas, de tallo erecto o decumbente de hasta 1 m de largo, hojas imparipinnadas, de foliolos lanceolados, pilosas, y flor... Pronounced [paˈt̪at̪a]. Often confused with plata and pauta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | patata |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [paˈt̪at̪a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,664 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for patata is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [paˈt̪at̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #16,664 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for patata, with forms such as "aptata", "paatta", and "pataat". 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, "plata", "pauta", "patea", 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 patata, spelled P-A-T-A-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Solanum tuberosum) Planta herbácea, caducifolia, de la familia de las solanáceas, de tallo erecto o decumbente de hasta 1 m de largo, hojas imparipinnadas, de foliolos lanceolados, pilosas, y flores en inflorescencias terminales racemosas, de pétalos fusionados de color blanco a púrpura, que fructifican en pequeñas bayas. Se la aprecia por los tubérculos que produce su sistema radical, muy usados en gastronomía.
- 2Tubérculo comestible de la patata₁, producido por el engrosamiento de sus tallos subterráneos, de pulpa firme de color claro y piel delgada del verde al castaño, apreciado como alimento.
- 3Cosa cualquiera de poco valor o calidad.
- 4Órgano de los animales que se ocupa de bombear la sangre.
- 5(Ipomoea batatas) Planta herbácea de la familia de las convolvuláceas, de origen latinoamericano y extensamente cultivada por su raíz tuberosa, empleada en gastronomía. Es una enredadera perenne, de hojas cordiformes o palmatilobuladas, alternas, pecioladas, y flores simpétalas, pentámeras, de buen tamaño y muy atractivas. La raíz es larga y fusiforme, con la piel pardorrojiza a púrpura, y pulpa similarmente variable. Cultivada en América desde la época precolombina, llegó a Europa en el siglo XVI y se ha difundido ampliamente en todo el mundo.
- 6Raíz comestible, en forma de tubérculo, de la patata₅. Es rica en fécula y fibra, y de sabor dulce que permite su uso en una gran variedad de preparaciones, tanto de plato como de postre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aptata,paatta,pataat,patatta,pattaa,pattata,ppatata,ptaata
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for patata
Misspelling Variants of "patata"
Frequency rank: #16,664 in Spanish
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