pato
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,894
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pato is aSpanishnoun. It means: Ave palmípeda del orden de las anseriformes, que se encuentra en estado silvestre y es domesticada para aprovechar sus huevos, plumas y carne. Pronounced [ˈpat̪o]. It ranks #7,894 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with po and PT.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pato |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpat̪o] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,894 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pato is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpat̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,894 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for pato, with forms such as "paot", "patto", and "ppato". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "po", "PT", "paz", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 pato, spelled P-A-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ave palmípeda del orden de las anseriformes, que se encuentra en estado silvestre y es domesticada para aprovechar sus huevos, plumas y carne.
- 2Tiesto que permite orinar a los enfermos en los hospitales y clínicas, sin bajarse de la cama.
- 3Tiesto para recoger excrementos de los enfermos.
- 4Hombre que siente atracción sexual por personas de su mismo sexo biológico.
- 5Individuo patoso, sin gracia y torpe.
- 6Juego tradicional argentino en que dos equipos de jinetes se disputan una canasta que tiene un pato₁ en su interior con el objetivo de hacerlo pasar por un aro puesto en la línea de fondo del equipo rival. En su versión reglamentada participan cuatro jinetes por equipo y el "pato" es un objeto circular de seis asas.
- 7Persona que asiste a una fiesta sin ser invitada.^([cita requerida]).
- 8El contenido de un vaso grande de vino.
- 9Persona víctima de pullas y burlas.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: paot,patto,ppato,ptao
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pato
Misspelling Variants of "pato"
Frequency rank: #7,894 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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