buon appetito
/ˈbwon ap.peˈti.to/
The verdict
“buon appetito” 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ¡Buen apetito! ¡Buen provecho!
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | buon appetito |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | /ˈbwon ap.peˈti.to/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “buon appetito” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for buon appetito is 13 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈbwon ap.peˈti.to/. 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: "¡Buen apetito! ¡Buen provecho!".
No misspelling variants are generated for buon appetito 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 buon appetito, spelled B-U-O-N- -A-P-P-E-T-I-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1¡Buen apetito! ¡Buen provecho!
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 “buon appetito”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is B-U-O-N- -A-P-P-E-T-I-T-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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