pan de Pascua

/[ˈpãn̪ d̪e ˈpaskwa]/ phrase

The verdict

“pan de Pascua” 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
13
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Bizcocho de masa oscura, que contiene fruta confitada pasas negras y otros ingredientes y se consume en Chile en la época navideña o "Pascua".

Key facts for pan de Pascua
PropertyValue
Headwordpan de Pascua
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈpãn̪ d̪e ˈpaskwa]
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “pan de Pascua” sits in Spanish frequency

pan de Pascua falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Spanish words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for pan de Pascua is 13 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpãn̪ d̪e ˈpaskwa]. 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: "Bizcocho de masa oscura, que contiene fruta confitada pasas negras y otros ingredientes y se consume en Chile en la época navideña o "Pascua".".

No misspelling variants are generated for pan de Pascua 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 pan de Pascua, spelled P-A-N- -D-E- -P-A-S-C-U-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Bizcocho de masa oscura, que contiene fruta confitada pasas negras y otros ingredientes y se consume en Chile en la época navideña o "Pascua".

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pan de Pascua"?
"pan de Pascua" is spelled P-A-N- -D-E- -P-A-S-C-U-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈpãn̪ d̪e ˈpaskwa].
What does "pan de Pascua" mean?
As a phrase, "pan de Pascua" means: Bizcocho de masa oscura, que contiene fruta confitada pasas negras y otros ingredientes y se consume en Chile en la época navideña o "Pascua".
How do you pronounce "pan de Pascua"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pan de Pascua" is [ˈpãn̪ d̪e ˈpaskwa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pan de Pascua" come from?
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Using “pan de Pascua”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Spanish spelling is P-A-N- -D-E- -P-A-S-C-U-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [ˈpãn̪ d̪e ˈpaskwa] (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.