hipopótamo pigmeo
The verdict
“hipopótamo pigmeo” 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
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: (Choeropsis liberiensis) Mamífero rumiante, ungulado, de piernas cortas, rechonchas, y cuerpo en forma de barril, cabeza grande con una boca amplia y fosas nasales situadas en lo alto del hocico. A...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hipopótamo pigmeo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ipoˈpot̪amo piɣ̞ˈmeo] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hipopótamo pigmeo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for hipopótamo pigmeo is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ipoˈpot̪amo piɣ̞ˈmeo]. 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: "(Choeropsis liberiensis) Mamífero rumiante, ungulado, de piernas cortas, rechonchas, y cuerpo en forma de barril, cabeza grande con una boca amplia y fosas nasales situadas en lo alto del hocico. A...".
No misspelling variants are generated for hipopótamo pigmeo 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 pigmeo, spelled H-I-P-O-P-Ó-T-A-M-O- -P-I-G-M-E-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Choeropsis liberiensis) Mamífero rumiante, ungulado, de piernas cortas, rechonchas, y cuerpo en forma de barril, cabeza grande con una boca amplia y fosas nasales situadas en lo alto del hocico. Al igual que los cerdos, tiene cuatro dedos en el pie, pero a diferencia de estos, utilizan todos los dedos para andar. Mide 1 metro hasta la cruz y de 1,50 a 1,75 metros de longitud y un peso de 170 a 275 kilogramos.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "hipopótamo pigmeo"?
What does "hipopótamo pigmeo" mean?
How do you pronounce "hipopótamo pigmeo"?
What language does "hipopótamo pigmeo" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Using “hipopótamo pigmeo”
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- -P-I-G-M-E-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ipoˈpot̪amo piɣ̞ˈmeo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter H in our Spanish index: