rotan
[ˈrot̪ãn]
The verdict
“rotan” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #80,472 among 4,151 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,472
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de rotar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-rotan · rotan · Spanish
rotan · rank #80,472 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,472
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH rot
Nearest frequency peer: rot (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “rotan”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Roco
Roco
19,533 corpus weight
- rot
rot
19,530 corpus weight
- rotan
rotan
19,529 corpus weight
- rotatoria
rotatoria
19,528 corpus weight
- rozaba
rozaba
19,527 corpus weight
- sabat
sabat
19,526 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “rotan” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rotan |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈrot̪ãn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,472 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “rotan” en español
Rare enough to double-check
rotan is uncommon Spanish at frequency #80,472 among 4,151 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈrot̪ãn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de rotar.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rotan, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is rotan, spelled R-O-T-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de rotar.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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