sacabotas
[sakaˈβ̞ot̪as]
The verdict
“sacabotas” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Objeto formado por un soporte y un cuerpo plano, usualmente ambos de madera, que contiene una muesca en su extremo para introducir en ella el talón de las botas u otro calzado semejante y quitársel...
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Index ES-sacabotas · sacabotas · Spanish
sacabotas · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sacabotas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [sakaˈβ̞ot̪as] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “sacabotas” en español
Rare enough to double-check
sacabotas is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [sakaˈβ̞ot̪as]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Objeto formado por un soporte y un cuerpo plano, usualmente ambos de madera, que contiene una muesca en su extremo para introducir en ella el talón de las botas u otro calzado semejante y quitársel...".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sacabotas, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is sacabotas, spelled S-A-C-A-B-O-T-A-S.
Definition
- 1Objeto formado por un soporte y un cuerpo plano, usualmente ambos de madera, que contiene una muesca en su extremo para introducir en ella el talón de las botas u otro calzado semejante y quitárselas haciendo presión.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.