contrato leonino
[kõn̪ˈt̪ɾat̪o leoˈnino]
The verdict
“contrato leonino” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Contrato de sociedad en que se pacta que todas las ganancias sean para uno o algunos de los socios y todas las pérdidas para los demás. Observando los rectos principios de la equidad, está reprobad...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contrato leonino |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [kõn̪ˈt̪ɾat̪o leoˈnino] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “contrato leonino” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for contrato leonino is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kõn̪ˈt̪ɾat̪o leoˈnino]. 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: "Contrato de sociedad en que se pacta que todas las ganancias sean para uno o algunos de los socios y todas las pérdidas para los demás. Observando los rectos principios de la equidad, está reprobad...".
No misspelling variants are generated for contrato leonino 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 contrato leonino, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-T-O- -L-E-O-N-I-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Contrato de sociedad en que se pacta que todas las ganancias sean para uno o algunos de los socios y todas las pérdidas para los demás. Observando los rectos principios de la equidad, está reprobado por las leyes y es nulo de «ipso jure».
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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- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-O-N-T-R-A-T-O- -L-E-O-N-I-N-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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