pantera negra

/[pãn̪ˈt̪eɾa ˈneɣ̞ɾa]/ phrase

The verdict

“pantera negra” 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: Ejemplar de cualquier especie de pantera que, debido al melanismo, tiene el pelaje completamente negro, aunque al examen cercano las marcas típicas puedan distinguirse. La condición es relativament...

Key facts for pantera negra
PropertyValue
Headwordpantera negra
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[pãn̪ˈt̪eɾa ˈneɣ̞ɾa]
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “pantera negra” sits in Spanish frequency

pantera negra 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 pantera negra is 13 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pãn̪ˈt̪eɾa ˈneɣ̞ɾa]. 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: "Ejemplar de cualquier especie de pantera que, debido al melanismo, tiene el pelaje completamente negro, aunque al examen cercano las marcas típicas puedan distinguirse. La condición es relativament...".

No misspelling variants are generated for pantera negra 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 pantera negra, spelled P-A-N-T-E-R-A- -N-E-G-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ejemplar de cualquier especie de pantera que, debido al melanismo, tiene el pelaje completamente negro, aunque al examen cercano las marcas típicas puedan distinguirse. La condición es relativamente frecuente entre jaguares y leopardos, y muy rara o inexistente entre otros grandes felinos.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pantera negra"?
"pantera negra" is spelled P-A-N-T-E-R-A- -N-E-G-R-A. The IPA pronunciation is [pãn̪ˈt̪eɾa ˈneɣ̞ɾa].
What does "pantera negra" mean?
As a phrase, "pantera negra" means: Ejemplar de cualquier especie de pantera que, debido al melanismo, tiene el pelaje completamente negro, aunque al examen cercano las marcas típicas puedan distinguirse. La condición es relativament...
How do you pronounce "pantera negra"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pantera negra" is [pãn̪ˈt̪eɾa ˈneɣ̞ɾa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pantera negra" come from?
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Using “pantera negra”

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

  • The one correct Spanish spelling is P-A-N-T-E-R-A- -N-E-G-R-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [pãn̪ˈt̪eɾa ˈneɣ̞ɾa] (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.