participio

/[paɾt̪iˈsipjo]/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#54,417

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

participio is aSpanishnoun. It means: Forma no personal del verbo (no se conjuga) que se usa en tiempos compuestos y participa de las funciones de un adjetivo. Puede indicar dos condiciones: la de estar recibiendo una acción (participi... Pronounced [paɾt̪iˈsipjo].

Key facts for participio
PropertyValue
Headwordparticipio
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[paɾt̪iˈsipjo]
Letters10
Frequency rank#54,417
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of participio in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for participio is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [paɾt̪iˈsipjo]. Corpus data places it at rank #54,417 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for participio in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 participio, spelled P-A-R-T-I-C-I-P-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Forma no personal del verbo (no se conjuga) que se usa en tiempos compuestos y participa de las funciones de un adjetivo. Puede indicar dos condiciones: la de estar recibiendo una acción (participio pasivo) y la de estar realizándola (participio activo).
  2. 2
    Forma no personal del verbo que termina regularmente en -do, (f. -da). Posee aspecto perfectivo, es decir, indica un estado previo al momento indicado por el verbo principal. Puede funcionar en los tiempos compuestos con el verbo auxiliar haber, en la voz pasiva junto con el verbo ser o como adjetivo (en este último caso concordando en género y número con el sustantivo).

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Frequency rank: #54,417 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "participio"?
"participio" is spelled P-A-R-T-I-C-I-P-I-O. The IPA pronunciation is [paɾt̪iˈsipjo].
What does "participio" mean?
As a noun, "participio" means: Forma no personal del verbo (no se conjuga) que se usa en tiempos compuestos y participa de las funciones de un adjetivo. Puede indicar dos condiciones: la de estar recibiendo una acción (participi...
How do you pronounce "participio"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "participio" is [paɾt̪iˈsipjo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.