participio pasivo
[paɾt̪iˈsipjo paˈsiβ̞o]
The verdict
“participio pasivo” 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) — Forma del verbo que no se conjuga y que participa de las funciones de un adjetivo, indicando el estado de recibir una acción. Dos usos comunes son la voz pasiva con el verbo "ser" y la descripción ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | participio pasivo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [paɾt̪iˈsipjo paˈsiβ̞o] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “participio pasivo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for participio pasivo is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [paɾt̪iˈsipjo paˈsiβ̞o]. 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: "Forma del verbo que no se conjuga y que participa de las funciones de un adjetivo, indicando el estado de recibir una acción. Dos usos comunes son la voz pasiva con el verbo "ser" y la descripción ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for participio pasivo 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 pasivo, spelled P-A-R-T-I-C-I-P-I-O- -P-A-S-I-V-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Forma del verbo que no se conjuga y que participa de las funciones de un adjetivo, indicando el estado de recibir una acción. Dos usos comunes son la voz pasiva con el verbo "ser" y la descripción de estados con el verbo "estar".
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-I-C-I-P-I-O- -P-A-S-I-V-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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