votar
[boˈt̪aɾ]
The verdict
“votar” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #1,663. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,663
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,793
- “V” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Emitir el voto, dar su parecer una persona en una votación o acto electoral.
Corpus desk
Index ES-votar · votar · Spanish
votar · rank #1,663 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,663
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,793
- PHOTO-FINISH voluntad
Nearest frequency peer: voluntad (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “votar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Valencia
Valencia
98,341 corpus weight
- viven
viven
98,340 corpus weight
- voluntad
voluntad
98,339 corpus weight
- votar
votar
98,338 corpus weight
- aceptar
aceptar
98,337 corpus weight
- antigua
antigua
98,336 corpus weight
What this shows “votar” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | votar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [boˈt̪aɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,663 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “votar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around votar (IPA [boˈt̪aɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,663 among 1,793 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for votar, with forms such as "ovtar", "voatr", and "votarr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "voto", "vote", "votos", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is votar, spelled V-O-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1Emitir el voto, dar su parecer una persona en una votación o acto electoral.
- 2Hacer voto de guardar o celebrar alguna festividad o defender algún misterio.
- 3Proferir blasfemias o juramentos.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how votar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Acudir a las urnas a votar.
¡Voto a Dios!
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ovtar
- voatr
- votarr
- votra
- vottar
- vtoar
- vvotar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of votar - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "votar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).