estado civil
The verdict
“estado civil” 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
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Situación en la que se encuentra una persona física según sus circunstancias y la legislación.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | estado civil |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [esˈt̪að̞o siˈβ̞il] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “estado civil” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for estado civil is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [esˈt̪að̞o siˈβ̞il]. 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: "Situación en la que se encuentra una persona física según sus circunstancias y la legislación.".
No misspelling variants are generated for estado civil 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 estado civil, spelled E-S-T-A-D-O- -C-I-V-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Situación en la que se encuentra una persona física según sus circunstancias y la legislación.
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Using “estado civil”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is E-S-T-A-D-O- -C-I-V-I-L — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [esˈt̪að̞o siˈβ̞il] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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