ratona
The verdict
“ratona” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #81,378 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #81,378
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: (Troglodytes aedon) Especie de ave paseriforme de la familia Troglodytidae, que se distribuye por la mayor parte de América. Es un pájaro pequeño, rechoncho y de cola estrecha. Mide aproximadamente...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ratona |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [raˈt̪ona] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #81,378 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ratona” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ratona is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [raˈt̪ona]. Corpus data places it at rank #81,378 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for ratona in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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 ratona, spelled R-A-T-O-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Troglodytes aedon) Especie de ave paseriforme de la familia Troglodytidae, que se distribuye por la mayor parte de América. Es un pájaro pequeño, rechoncho y de cola estrecha. Mide aproximadamente 10 cm y pesa alrededor de 12 g. Tanto el macho como la hembra tienen el plumaje de las partes superiores de color pardo, con listado negro en las alas y la cola. Sus partes inferiores son de tonos marrones más claros, haciéndose más claros hacia el vientre. Además presenta listado pardo más oscuro en los flancos y zona subcaudal.
- 2Mesa ratona.
Frequency rank: #81,378 in Spanish
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Using “ratona”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is R-A-T-O-N-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [raˈt̪ona] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Nearby Spanish words
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