sacabotas

/[sakaˈβ̞ot̪as]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

sacabotas is aSpanishnoun. It means: 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... Pronounced [sakaˈβ̞ot̪as].

Key facts for sacabotas
PropertyValue
Headwordsacabotas
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[sakaˈβ̞ot̪as]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

sacabotas is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for sacabotas is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sakaˈβ̞ot̪as]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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...".

No misspelling variants are generated for sacabotas in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.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 sacabotas, spelled S-A-C-A-B-O-T-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    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 quitárselas haciendo presión.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sacabotas"?
"sacabotas" is spelled S-A-C-A-B-O-T-A-S. The IPA pronunciation is [sakaˈβ̞ot̪as].
What does "sacabotas" mean?
As a noun, "sacabotas" means: 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...
How do you pronounce "sacabotas"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sacabotas" is [sakaˈβ̞ot̪as]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sacabotas" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.