pantano
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,666
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
pantano is aSpanishnoun. It means: Hondonada donde se recogen y naturalmente se detienen las aguas, con fondo más o menos cenagoso. Pronounced [pãn̪ˈt̪ano]. Often confused with patán and pintan.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pantano |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pãn̪ˈt̪ano] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pantano is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pãn̪ˈt̪ano]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,666 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 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 pantano, with forms such as "apntano", "panatno", and "panntano". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "patán", "pintan", "Patiño", 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 pantano, spelled P-A-N-T-A-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Hondonada donde se recogen y naturalmente se detienen las aguas, con fondo más o menos cenagoso.
- 2Gran depósito de agua, que se forma generalmente cerrando la boca de un valle, y sirve para alimentar las acequias de riego.
- 3Dificultad, óbice, estorbo grande.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apntano,panatno,panntano,pantanno,pantaon,pantnao,panttano,patnano,pnatano,ppantano
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pantano
Misspelling Variants of "pantano"
Frequency rank: #14,666 in Spanish
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