saboteo
[saβ̞oˈt̪eo]
The verdict
“saboteo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #88,279 among 4,169 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,279
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acción o efecto de sabotear; daño, obstrucción, avería o perjuicio causado contra alguna institución o agrupación como forma de lucha, resistencia o rechazo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-saboteo · saboteo · Spanish
saboteo · rank #88,279 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,279
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH saldrías
Nearest frequency peer: saldrías (+2 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 “saboteo”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- rogaría
rogaría
11,730 corpus weight
- roncas
roncas
11,729 corpus weight
- saboteo
saboteo
11,722 corpus weight
- saldrías
saldrías
11,720 corpus weight
- salmantinos
salmantinos
11,719 corpus weight
- saltaría
saltaría
11,718 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “saboteo” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saboteo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [saβ̞oˈt̪eo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,279 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “saboteo” en español
Rare enough to double-check
saboteo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #88,279 among 4,169 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [saβ̞oˈt̪eo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Acción o efecto de sabotear; daño, obstrucción, avería o perjuicio causado contra alguna institución o agrupación como forma de lucha, resistencia o rechazo.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for saboteo, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is saboteo, spelled S-A-B-O-T-E-O.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de sabotear; daño, obstrucción, avería o perjuicio causado contra alguna institución o agrupación como forma de lucha, resistencia o rechazo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how saboteo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
El saboteo electoral presenta diversos elementos: la amenaza para lograr la renuncia de los aspirantes, la prohibición de hacer campaña, el secuestro de los candidatos, la amenaza contra jurados electorales y la presión.
Synonyms
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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