part du lion
[paʁ dy ljɔ̃]
The verdict
“part du lion” 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
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Parte del león o tajada del león.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | part du lion |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [paʁ dy ljɔ̃] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “part du lion” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for part du lion is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [paʁ dy ljɔ̃]. 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: "Parte del león o tajada del león.".
No misspelling variants are generated for part du lion 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 part du lion, spelled P-A-R-T- -D-U- -L-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Parte del león o tajada del león.
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-T- -D-U- -L-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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