hipopótamo común
The verdict
“hipopótamo común” 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
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: (Hippopotamus amphibius) Mamífero herbívoro del orden artiodáctilos, de cuerpo muy grueso, que mide de 3 a 5 m y pesa de 1 a 4 toneladas; tiene la piel gruesa, negruzca y casi sin pelo, las patas r...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hipopótamo común |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ipoˈpot̪amo koˈmũn] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hipopótamo común” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for hipopótamo común is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ipoˈpot̪amo koˈmũn]. 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: "(Hippopotamus amphibius) Mamífero herbívoro del orden artiodáctilos, de cuerpo muy grueso, que mide de 3 a 5 m y pesa de 1 a 4 toneladas; tiene la piel gruesa, negruzca y casi sin pelo, las patas r...".
No misspelling variants are generated for hipopótamo común 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 hipopótamo común, spelled H-I-P-O-P-Ó-T-A-M-O- -C-O-M-Ú-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Hippopotamus amphibius) Mamífero herbívoro del orden artiodáctilos, de cuerpo muy grueso, que mide de 3 a 5 m y pesa de 1 a 4 toneladas; tiene la piel gruesa, negruzca y casi sin pelo, las patas robustas y cortas, la boca muy grande y las orejas pequeñas; vive en algunos ríos de África.
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Using “hipopótamo común”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is H-I-P-O-P-Ó-T-A-M-O- -C-O-M-Ú-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ipoˈpot̪amo koˈmũn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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