patito de goma

/[paˈt̪it̪o ð̞e ˈɣ̞oma]/ phrase

Letters

14 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

patito de goma is aSpanishphrase. It means: Juguete en forma de pato que se suele usar para bañarse con él Pronounced [paˈt̪it̪o ð̞e ˈɣ̞oma].

Key facts for patito de goma
PropertyValue
Headwordpatito de goma
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[paˈt̪it̪o ð̞e ˈɣ̞oma]
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

patito de goma is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for patito de goma is 14 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [paˈt̪it̪o ð̞e ˈɣ̞oma]. 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: "Juguete en forma de pato que se suele usar para bañarse con él".

No misspelling variants are generated for patito de goma 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 patito de goma, spelled P-A-T-I-T-O- -D-E- -G-O-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Juguete en forma de pato que se suele usar para bañarse con él

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "patito de goma"?
"patito de goma" is spelled P-A-T-I-T-O- -D-E- -G-O-M-A. The IPA pronunciation is [paˈt̪it̪o ð̞e ˈɣ̞oma].
What does "patito de goma" mean?
As a phrase, "patito de goma" means: Juguete en forma de pato que se suele usar para bañarse con él
How do you pronounce "patito de goma"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "patito de goma" is [paˈt̪it̪o ð̞e ˈɣ̞oma]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "patito de goma" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.