cadena perpetua
The verdict
“cadena perpetua” 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
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Pena impuesta por la ley consistente en recluir a un reo en un penal por el resto de su vida.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cadena perpetua |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [kaˈð̞ena peɾˈpet̪wa] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cadena perpetua” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cadena perpetua is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈð̞ena peɾˈpet̪wa]. 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: "Pena impuesta por la ley consistente en recluir a un reo en un penal por el resto de su vida.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cadena perpetua 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 cadena perpetua, spelled C-A-D-E-N-A- -P-E-R-P-E-T-U-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pena impuesta por la ley consistente en recluir a un reo en un penal por el resto de su vida.
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Using “cadena perpetua”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-D-E-N-A- -P-E-R-P-E-T-U-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kaˈð̞ena peɾˈpet̪wa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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