locativo
[lokaˈt̪iβ̞o]
The verdict
“locativo” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #99,772 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #99,772
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Uno de los casos gramaticales para el sintagma nominal, donde generalmente se marca el lugar donde se desarrolla una acción.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | locativo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [lokaˈt̪iβ̞o] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,772 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “locativo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for locativo is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [lokaˈt̪iβ̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #99,772 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Uno de los casos gramaticales para el sintagma nominal, donde generalmente se marca el lugar donde se desarrolla una acción.".
No misspelling variants are generated for locativo in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is locativo, spelled L-O-C-A-T-I-V-O.
Definition
- 1Uno de los casos gramaticales para el sintagma nominal, donde generalmente se marca el lugar donde se desarrolla una acción.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “locativo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is L-O-C-A-T-I-V-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [lokaˈt̪iβ̞o] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.