Pelota

Definition: Pelota

Pelota

Noun

1. A Basque or Spanish game played in a court with a ball and a wickerwork racket.

Etymology: Pelota \Pe*lo"ta\, noun. [Spanish expression, literally, ball.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Pelota

Synonym: jai alai (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Pelota

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Pelota (in Basque, pilota) is a name for a variety of court sports played with a ball using one's hand, a racket, a wooden bat (pala), or a basket propulsor, against a wall (frontón in Spanish, frontoi in Basque). They derive from real tennis (see Jeu de Paume) and are widely played among Basques and their neighbours. To foreign spectators, it may appear as squash in a larger court.

See also jai alai, frontenis, trinquete

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pelota."

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Crosswords: Pelota

Specialty definitions using "pelota": PELOTA MAKER. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Pelota" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Asturian (racquetball), Cebuano (racquetball), Spanish (ball, oval, pigskin, pill).

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Modern Usage: Pelota

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Pelota de cuero (1963)

La Pelota (2001)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Pelota

Domain	Title
Books	50 años de pelota vasca : diálogos con José Ma. Arancibia (reference) La Pelota y El Arquero (reference) Leo Pierde Su Pelota (Trebol Toca Y Siente) (reference) Mundo Es Una Pelota, El (reference) Paremos La Pelota (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Tirame La Pelota Maria [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Pelota

"Pelota" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pelota" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	13	97,576

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Pelota

Expression using "pelota": pelota player. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pelota

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
pelota	34	azteca de juego pelota	3
de juego pelota	16	azteca de de imagenes juego pelota	3
de juego maya pelota	13	baseball de de pelota tamaño una	3
pelota vasca	10	de de juego los mayas pelota	2
de futbol pelota	8	futbol pelota	2
maya pelota	5	de hockey pelota	2
paleta pelota	5	pelota valenciana	2
en pelota	5	de la origen pelota	2
pelota playa	4	de juego palenque pelota	2
de pelota tenis	4	antiguo de juego mexico pelota	2
de juego mixteca pelota	4	de de imagenes juego pelota prehispanico	2
de historia la pelota	3	en minas pelota	2
de golf pelota	3	de juegos pelota	2
en mujeres pelota	3	mixteca pelota	2
americana pelota	3	balón football jugando niños pelota	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Pelota

Language		Translations for "pelota"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		baszk labdajáték. (various references)

Pig Latin		elotapay

Romanian		pelotã. (various references)

Spanish		pelota vasca, jai alai. (various references)

Ukranian		пелота. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Pelota

Derivations
	Words beginning with "pelota": pelotas. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Pelota"

Words rhyming with "pelota" (pronounced 'Pe*lo"ta'): Abranchiata, Albata, Amanita, Amniota, Amrita, Annellata, Annulata, Anotta, Anta, Aorta, Aplacentata, Appendiculata, Aprocta, Argonauta, Arista, Articulata, Atlanta, Avesta, Bafta, Ballista, Baryta, Basta, Battuta, Berretta, beta, Bonetta, Brachiata, Burletta, Cantata, Carromata, Catallacta, Caudata, Cephalata, Charta, Chiretta, Chordata, Cicuta, Ciliata, Cirrobranchiata, Coaita, Codetta, Comedietta, Costa, Cotta, Craniota, Crusta, Cryptobranchiata, Cuesta, Decacerata, Deciduata. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Pelota

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-l-o-p-t"
	-1 letter: leapt, lepta, palet, petal, plate, pleat, tepal.
	-2 letters: aloe, alto, atop, late, leap, lept, lope, lota, olea, opal, pale, pate, peal, peat, pelt, plat, plea, plot, poet, pole, tael, tale, tape, teal, tela, tepa, toea, tola, tole, tope.
	-3 letters: ale, alp, alt, ape, apt, ate, eat, eta, lap, lat, lea, let, lop, lot.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-l-o-p-t"
	+1 letter: apostle, outleap, paletot, pelotas, polecat, polenta, potable, prolate, tadpole, taphole.
	+2 letters: allotype, antelope, antipole, apholate, apostles, calotype, clodpate, compleat, conepatl, copulate, gantlope, lakeport, oppilate, outleaps, outleapt, paletots, palmetto, pantofle, pectoral, pentanol, petalody, petaloid, petalous, petiolar, petrosal, pilotage, plethora, plottage, poetical, polecats, polentas, polestar, populate, portable, portaled, potables, potlache, preallot, spoliate, tabletop, tadpoles, tapholes, temporal, toeplate.
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