rebotar
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#43,219
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
rebotar is aSpanishverb. It means: Cambiar de dirección un cuerpo tras chocar con otro fijo por principio de acción y reacción, especialmente los elásticos. Pronounced [reβ̞oˈt̪aɾ]. Often confused with retar and rotar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rebotar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [reβ̞oˈt̪aɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #43,219 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for rebotar is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [reβ̞oˈt̪aɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #43,219 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for rebotar, with forms such as "erbotar", "rbeotar", and "rebbotar". 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, "retar", "rotar", "remota", 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 rebotar, spelled R-E-B-O-T-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cambiar de dirección un cuerpo tras chocar con otro fijo por principio de acción y reacción, especialmente los elásticos.
- 2Dicho de un cheque: haber sido rechazado por falta de fondos.
- 3No llegar un mensaje de correo electrónico al destinatario.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erbotar,rbeotar,rebbotar,reboatr,rebotarr,rebotra,rebottar,rebtoar,reobtar,revotar,rrebotar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rebotar
Misspelling Variants of "rebotar"
Frequency rank: #43,219 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter R in our Spanish index: