doctorado

/[d̪okt̪oˈɾað̞o]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,657

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

doctorado is aSpanishnoun. It means: Grado o cualidad de doctor. Pronounced [d̪okt̪oˈɾað̞o]. It ranks #6,657 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with doctoral and doctorados.

Key facts for doctorado
PropertyValue
Headworddoctorado
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[d̪okt̪oˈɾað̞o]
Letters9
Frequency rank#6,657
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of doctorado in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for doctorado is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪okt̪oˈɾað̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,657 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Grado o cualidad de doctor.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for doctorado, with forms such as "dcotorado", "ddoctorado", and "docctorado". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "doctoral", "doctorados", "doctora", 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 doctorado, spelled D-O-C-T-O-R-A-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Grado o cualidad de doctor.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: dcotorado,ddoctorado,docctorado,docotrado,doctoardo,doctoraddo,doctoraod,doctordao,doctorrado,doctroado,docttorado,dotcorado,odctorado

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for doctorado

Misspelling Variants of "doctorado"

dcotorado9ddoctorado10docctorado10docotrado9doctoardo9doctoraddo10doctoraod9doctordao9
Misspelling Variants of "doctorado"

Frequency rank: #6,657 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "doctorado"?
"doctorado" is spelled D-O-C-T-O-R-A-D-O. The IPA pronunciation is [d̪okt̪oˈɾað̞o].
What does "doctorado" mean?
As a noun, "doctorado" means: Grado o cualidad de doctor.
What words are commonly confused with "doctorado"?
"doctorado" is commonly confused with "doctoral", "doctorados", "doctora". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "doctorado"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "doctorado" is [d̪okt̪oˈɾað̞o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "doctorado" come from?
"doctorado" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Spanish words

Other entries that begin with the letter D in our Spanish index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.