tomate
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,244
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
tomate is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Solanum lycopersicum) Planta americana de la familia de las solanáceas, una hierba anual, rastrera o trepadora, de tallos pubescentes y fruto en baya de color rojo, muy jugoso y de sabor ligeramen... Pronounced [t̪oˈmat̪e]. It ranks #6,244 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with Tomé and traté.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tomate |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪oˈmat̪e] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,244 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tomate is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪oˈmat̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,244 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for tomate, with forms such as "otmate", "tmoate", and "toamte". 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 also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "Tomé", "traté", "tómese", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 tomate, spelled T-O-M-A-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Solanum lycopersicum) Planta americana de la familia de las solanáceas, una hierba anual, rastrera o trepadora, de tallos pubescentes y fruto en baya de color rojo, muy jugoso y de sabor ligeramente ácido.
- 2Fruto de esta planta, consumido como verdura en numerosas preparaciones.
- 3(Physalis ixocarpa) Planta americana de la familia de las solanáceas, una hierba anual de tallos altos, cuyo fruto es una baya de color verde, envuelta en una vaina de textura similar al papel formada a partir del cáliz floral.
- 4Fruto de esta planta, consumido como verdura en México.
- 5Asunto turbio y enredado.
- 6Por analogía, moño hecho en la base del cráneo, en que el pelo queda tomado formando una pequeña esfera.
- 7Roto en una prenda de vestir, especialmente en la parte correspondiente a los dedos del pie en un calcetín o una media.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: otmate,tmoate,toamte,tomaet,tomatte,tommate,tomtae,ttomate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tomate
Misspelling Variants of "tomate"
Frequency rank: #6,244 in Spanish
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