participio activo
[paɾt̪iˈsipjo akˈt̪iβ̞o]
The verdict
“participio activo” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Participio de presente.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | participio activo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [paɾt̪iˈsipjo akˈt̪iβ̞o] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “participio activo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for participio activo is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [paɾt̪iˈsipjo akˈt̪iβ̞o]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for participio activo 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 participio activo, spelled P-A-R-T-I-C-I-P-I-O- -A-C-T-I-V-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Participio de presente.
- 2En latín y otros idiomas, formas del participio que se emplean en la voz activa, en oposición a aquellos que se emplean en la pasiva (en la que el sujeto recibe los efectos de la acción).
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 practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-A-R-T-I-C-I-P-I-O- -A-C-T-I-V-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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