sabotaje

/[saβ̞oˈt̪axe]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#18,379

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

sabotaje is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de sabotear; daño, obstrucción, avería o perjuicio causado contra alguna institución o agrupación como forma de lucha, resistencia o rechazo. Pronounced [saβ̞oˈt̪axe].

Key facts for sabotaje
PropertyValue
Headwordsabotaje
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[saβ̞oˈt̪axe]
Letters8
Frequency rank#18,379
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for sabotaje is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [saβ̞oˈt̪axe]. Corpus data places it at rank #18,379 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.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for sabotaje, with forms such as "asbotaje", "sabbotaje", and "saboatje". 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 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 sabotaje, spelled S-A-B-O-T-A-J-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Acción o efecto de sabotear; daño, obstrucción, avería o perjuicio causado contra alguna institución o agrupación como forma de lucha, resistencia o rechazo.
  2. 2
    Acto delictivo de violencia cometido contra una instalación industrial o negociación mercantil.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: asbotaje,sabbotaje,saboatje,sabotaej,sabotajje,sabotjae,sabottaje,sabtoaje,saobtaje,savotaje,sbaotaje,ssabotaje

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sabotaje

Misspelling Variants of "sabotaje"

asbotaje8sabbotaje9saboatje8sabotaej8sabotajje9sabotjae8sabottaje9sabtoaje8
Misspelling Variants of "sabotaje"

Frequency rank: #18,379 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sabotaje"?
"sabotaje" is spelled S-A-B-O-T-A-J-E. The IPA pronunciation is [saβ̞oˈt̪axe].
What does "sabotaje" mean?
As a noun, "sabotaje" means: Acción o efecto de sabotear; daño, obstrucción, avería o perjuicio causado contra alguna institución o agrupación como forma de lucha, resistencia o rechazo.
What are common misspellings of "sabotaje"?
Common misspellings include "asbotaje", "sabbotaje", "saboatje", "sabotaej", "sabotajje". The correct spelling is "sabotaje".
How do you pronounce "sabotaje"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sabotaje" is [saβ̞oˈt̪axe]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sabotaje" come from?
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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.