dativo
[d̪aˈt̪iβ̞o]
The verdict
“dativo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #73,532 among 90,663 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,532
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 90,663
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Uno de los casos gramaticales para el sintagma nominal, donde generalmente se marca el objeto indirecto de la acción indicada por el verbo, así como el complemento de algunas preposiciones.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dativo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [d̪aˈt̪iβ̞o] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,532 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dativo” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
dativo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #73,532 among 90,663 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [d̪aˈt̪iβ̞o]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Uno de los casos gramaticales para el sintagma nominal, donde generalmente se marca el objeto indirecto de la acción indicada por el verbo, así como el complemento de algunas preposiciones.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for dativo in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is dativo, spelled D-A-T-I-V-O.
Definition
- 1Uno de los casos gramaticales para el sintagma nominal, donde generalmente se marca el objeto indirecto de la acción indicada por el verbo, así como el complemento de algunas preposiciones.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “dativo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is D-A-T-I-V-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.