parpadeante
[paɾpað̞eˈãn̪t̪e]
The verdict
“parpadeante” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — parpadeante (sin género) ¦ plural: parpadeantes 1: Que parpadea :*Ejemplo: Y entrando de nuevo en la estancia, arrodillose al lado del lecho mortuorio, sacó su breviario, y a la luz parpadeante de ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parpadeante |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [paɾpað̞eˈãn̪t̪e] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “parpadeante” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for parpadeante is 11 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [paɾpað̞eˈãn̪t̪e]. 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: "parpadeante (sin género) ¦ plural: parpadeantes 1: Que parpadea :*Ejemplo: Y entrando de nuevo en la estancia, arrodillose al lado del lecho mortuorio, sacó su breviario, y a la luz parpadeante de ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for parpadeante 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 parpadeante, spelled P-A-R-P-A-D-E-A-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1parpadeante (sin género) ¦ plural: parpadeantes 1: Que parpadea :*Ejemplo: Y entrando de nuevo en la estancia, arrodillose al lado del lecho mortuorio, sacó su breviario, y a la luz parpadeante de los blandones, fue leyendo en voz alta, compuesta y grave, las cláusulas melancólicas del oficio de difuntos.Emilia Pardo Bazán. Un Viaje de Novios. Página 299. Editorial: Good Press. 18 dic 2023. :*Ejemplo: Las manchas de los árboles, verdes globos cautivos, sueltos globos las nubes también formando manchones, nadaban en la oscuridad luminosa del aguacero entre nervios de cielo que se alumbraba con la tempestad, como al dolor de muela le alumbraba en la cara filamentos nerviosos entre el hueso, la carne y el ojo adolorido, parpadeante, a punto de saltársele.Miguel Ángel Asturias. El Alhajadito. Página 137. Editorial: F&g Editores. 17 feb 2024. ISBN: 9789993938248.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-A-R-P-A-D-E-A-N-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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