lista negra
The verdict
“lista negra” 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
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Conjunto de personas que, según algún criterio, no pueden participar en determinada actividad. Por lo común se basan en criterios inconfesables, como opiniones políticas, credos religiosos, defecto...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lista negra |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈlist̪a ˈneɣ̞ɾa] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lista negra” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for lista negra is 11 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlist̪a ˈneɣ̞ɾa]. 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: "Conjunto de personas que, según algún criterio, no pueden participar en determinada actividad. Por lo común se basan en criterios inconfesables, como opiniones políticas, credos religiosos, defecto...".
No misspelling variants are generated for lista negra 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 lista negra, spelled L-I-S-T-A- -N-E-G-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Conjunto de personas que, según algún criterio, no pueden participar en determinada actividad. Por lo común se basan en criterios inconfesables, como opiniones políticas, credos religiosos, defectos físicos, conflictos personales, vida privada y otros semejantes; y por este motivo se oculta la existencia de una lista negra a los prejudicados con ella.
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Using “lista negra”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is L-I-S-T-A- -N-E-G-R-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈlist̪a ˈneɣ̞ɾa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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