decúbito supino
The verdict
“decúbito supino” 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: Posición del cuerpo yacente sobre la espalda.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | decúbito supino |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [d̪eˈkuβ̞it̪o suˈpino] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “decúbito supino” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for decúbito supino is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪eˈkuβ̞it̪o suˈpino]. 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: "Posición del cuerpo yacente sobre la espalda.".
No misspelling variants are generated for decúbito supino 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 decúbito supino, spelled D-E-C-Ú-B-I-T-O- -S-U-P-I-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Posición del cuerpo yacente sobre la espalda.
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Using “decúbito supino”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is D-E-C-Ú-B-I-T-O- -S-U-P-I-N-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [d̪eˈkuβ̞it̪o suˈpino] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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