en cuatro patas
[ẽŋ ˈkwat̪ɾo ˈpat̪as]
The verdict
“en cuatro patas” 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
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Posición que toma una persona o en la que anda, apoyando las rodillas y las manos o los codos en el piso.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | en cuatro patas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ẽŋ ˈkwat̪ɾo ˈpat̪as] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “en cuatro patas” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for en cuatro patas is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ẽŋ ˈkwat̪ɾo ˈpat̪as]. 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 que toma una persona o en la que anda, apoyando las rodillas y las manos o los codos en el piso.".
No misspelling variants are generated for en cuatro patas 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 en cuatro patas, spelled E-N- -C-U-A-T-R-O- -P-A-T-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Posición que toma una persona o en la que anda, apoyando las rodillas y las manos o los codos en el piso.
Synonyms
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is E-N- -C-U-A-T-R-O- -P-A-T-A-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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