pájaro carpintero
The verdict
“pájaro carpintero” 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: Nombre de diversas especies de aves de la familia Picidae, que se caracterizan por el fuerte pico con el que taladran los troncos y cortezas de los árboles en busca de insectos para alimentarse. Pr...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pájaro carpintero |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈpaxaɾo kaɾpĩn̪ˈt̪eɾo] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pájaro carpintero” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pájaro carpintero is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpaxaɾo kaɾpĩn̪ˈt̪eɾo]. 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: "Nombre de diversas especies de aves de la familia Picidae, que se caracterizan por el fuerte pico con el que taladran los troncos y cortezas de los árboles en busca de insectos para alimentarse. Pr...".
No misspelling variants are generated for pájaro carpintero 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 pájaro carpintero, spelled P-Á-J-A-R-O- -C-A-R-P-I-N-T-E-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nombre de diversas especies de aves de la familia Picidae, que se caracterizan por el fuerte pico con el que taladran los troncos y cortezas de los árboles en busca de insectos para alimentarse. Provocan un sonido característico de martilleo en los bosques y muchos son trepadores.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-Á-J-A-R-O- -C-A-R-P-I-N-T-E-R-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈpaxaɾo kaɾpĩn̪ˈt̪eɾo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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