tortilla de patata
The verdict
“tortilla de patata” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 18
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Tortilla (plato a base de huevo batido) hecha con patatas, aunque también se le puede añadir más ingredientes como cebolla.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tortilla de patata |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [t̪oɾˈt̪iʝa ð̞e paˈt̪at̪a] |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tortilla de patata” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tortilla de patata is 18 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪oɾˈt̪iʝa ð̞e paˈt̪at̪a]. 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: "Tortilla (plato a base de huevo batido) hecha con patatas, aunque también se le puede añadir más ingredientes como cebolla.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tortilla de patata 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 tortilla de patata, spelled T-O-R-T-I-L-L-A- -D-E- -P-A-T-A-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tortilla (plato a base de huevo batido) hecha con patatas, aunque también se le puede añadir más ingredientes como cebolla.
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.
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Using “tortilla de patata”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is T-O-R-T-I-L-L-A- -D-E- -P-A-T-A-T-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [t̪oɾˈt̪iʝa ð̞e paˈt̪at̪a] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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