filho da puta
The verdict
“filho da puta” 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
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Bastardo, hijo de la chingada, hijo de puta, hijueputa, máncer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | filho da puta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈfi.ʎu dɐ ˈpu.tɐ] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “filho da puta” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for filho da puta is 13 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfi.ʎu dɐ ˈpu.tɐ]. 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: "Bastardo, hijo de la chingada, hijo de puta, hijueputa, máncer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for filho da puta 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 filho da puta, spelled F-I-L-H-O- -D-A- -P-U-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bastardo, hijo de la chingada, hijo de puta, hijueputa, máncer.
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Using “filho da puta”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is F-I-L-H-O- -D-A- -P-U-T-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈfi.ʎu dɐ ˈpu.tɐ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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