Аннотация:Data on the variability of the continuum optical emission are used for the
rst time to estimate the degree of spotting in stars similar to that of the
sun. It is sown that the amount of spotting increases gradually from the sun
to the highly spotted stars for which Alekseev and Gershberg constructed
the zonal model for the distributions of spots. A close relationship is found
between spotting and the power of the x-ray emission from the stars with
widely varying levels of activity
Keywords: stars spots, stellar coronae, solar-type stars