pato anteojillo
[ˈpat̪o ãn̪t̪eoˈxiʝo]
The verdict
“pato anteojillo” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Anas specularis King. La cabeza es negra café por encima y por debajo café rojiza. Una mancha blanca ovalada a los lados de la cara le da su nombre. En Chile está presente desde Valparaíso al sur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pato anteojillo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈpat̪o ãn̪t̪eoˈxiʝo] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pato anteojillo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pato anteojillo is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpat̪o ãn̪t̪eoˈxiʝo]. 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: "Anas specularis King. La cabeza es negra café por encima y por debajo café rojiza. Una mancha blanca ovalada a los lados de la cara le da su nombre. En Chile está presente desde Valparaíso al sur.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pato anteojillo 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 pato anteojillo, spelled P-A-T-O- -A-N-T-E-O-J-I-L-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Anas specularis King. La cabeza es negra café por encima y por debajo café rojiza. Una mancha blanca ovalada a los lados de la cara le da su nombre. En Chile está presente desde Valparaíso al sur.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-A-T-O- -A-N-T-E-O-J-I-L-L-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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