sapote
The verdict
“sapote” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 6
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: (Matisia cordata) Árbol de las malváceas de tronco liso y redondo, ramas gruesas, hojas con forma de corazón y flores de color blanco amarillento con cáliz verde pálido. Puede alcanzar hasta 40 m e...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sapote |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [saˈpot̪e] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sapote” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for sapote is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [saˈpot̪e]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for sapote 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 sapote, spelled S-A-P-O-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Matisia cordata) Árbol de las malváceas de tronco liso y redondo, ramas gruesas, hojas con forma de corazón y flores de color blanco amarillento con cáliz verde pálido. Puede alcanzar hasta 40 m en estado silvestre, pero en cultivos normalmente no pasa de los 15 m.
- 2Fruto de Matisia cordata, de cáscara gruesa, tamaño promedio de 7 por 6 cm, de color pardo por fuera y anaranjado por dentro al madurar, comestible y muy apreciado por su dulce sabor y aroma. La pulpa es fibrosa y reviste cada una de sus semillas (generalmente de dos a seis).
- 3(Pouteria sapota) Árbol de las sapotáceas que puede sobrepasar los 30 m de altura, de corteza arrugada color marrón o rojizo, hojas grandes con forma de lanza y flores blancuzcas.
- 4Fruto del Pouteria sapota, baya con forma similar a la de un globo, de cáscara dura y rugosa color café claro o rojizo, y pulpa dulce, carnosa y comestible. Generalmente contiene una semilla de hasta 10 cm de largo, de forma elíptica y color oscuro, que se considera tóxica.
- 5Todo tipo de fruto los sapotaceas, que tiene pulpa dulce, carnosa y comestible.
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Using “sapote”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is S-A-P-O-T-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [saˈpot̪e] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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