padrino
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,394
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
padrino is aSpanishnoun. It means: El que tiene, presenta o asiste a otra persona que recibe el sacramento del bautismo, de la confirmación, del matrimonio o del orden si es varón, o que profesa, si se trata de una religiosa. Pronounced [paˈð̞ɾino]. Often confused with pario and padrón.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | padrino |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [paˈð̞ɾino] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,394 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for padrino is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [paˈð̞ɾino]. Corpus data places it at rank #10,394 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for padrino, with forms such as "apdrino", "paddrino", and "padirno". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "pario", "padrón", "patrio", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 padrino, spelled P-A-D-R-I-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1El que tiene, presenta o asiste a otra persona que recibe el sacramento del bautismo, de la confirmación, del matrimonio o del orden si es varón, o que profesa, si se trata de una religiosa.
- 2El que presenta y acompaña a otro que recibe algún honor, grado, etc.
- 3Varón que ayuda y patrocina a otra persona, normalmente más joven o inexperta.
- 4Varón que acompaña, supervisa y eventualmente arbitra a otra persona en un duelo, especialmente cuando es de armas o a cuchillos.
- 5Hombre encargado de la tutela de otra persona.
- 6Jefe de un grupo criminal organizado.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apdrino,paddrino,padirno,padrinno,padrion,padrnio,padrrino,pardino,pdarino,ppadrino
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Misspelling Variants of "padrino"
Frequency rank: #10,394 in Spanish
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