in dubio pro reo
The verdict
“in dubio pro reo” 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: Principio jurídico que consiste en favorecer al acusado cuando no se tienen pruebas suficientes para establecer una condena en contra de éste.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | in dubio pro reo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈĩn̪ ˈd̪uβ̞jo ˈpɾo ˈreo] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “in dubio pro reo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for in dubio pro reo is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈĩn̪ ˈd̪uβ̞jo ˈpɾo ˈreo]. 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: "Principio jurídico que consiste en favorecer al acusado cuando no se tienen pruebas suficientes para establecer una condena en contra de éste.".
No misspelling variants are generated for in dubio pro reo 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 in dubio pro reo, spelled I-N- -D-U-B-I-O- -P-R-O- -R-E-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Principio jurídico que consiste en favorecer al acusado cuando no se tienen pruebas suficientes para establecer una condena en contra de éste.
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Using “in dubio pro reo”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is I-N- -D-U-B-I-O- -P-R-O- -R-E-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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