compadre
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,101
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
compadre is aSpanishnoun. It means: Padrino de bautizo o de confirmación (religiosa, católica) de una persona, respecto del padre, madre o madrina de esa persona. Pronounced [kõmˈpað̞ɾe]. Often confused with compré and compare.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | compadre |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kõmˈpað̞ɾe] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,101 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for compadre is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kõmˈpað̞ɾe]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,101 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for compadre, with forms such as "ccompadre", "cmopadre", and "comapdre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "compré", "compare", "comparo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 compadre, spelled C-O-M-P-A-D-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Padrino de bautizo o de confirmación (religiosa, católica) de una persona, respecto del padre, madre o madrina de esa persona.
- 2Padre de alguien, respecto del padrino y la madrina de esa persona.
- 3Persona unida por vínculos de amistad o confianza con quien habla.
- 4Personaje típico o popular que gusta de presumir y buscar pelea.
- 5Hombre que protege o es bienhechor de otros.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccompadre,cmopadre,comapdre,commpadre,compaddre,compader,compadrre,comparde,compdare,comppadre,copmadre,ocmpadre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for compadre
Misspelling Variants of "compadre"
Frequency rank: #14,101 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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