pato capuchino
[ˈpat̪o kapuˈt͡ʃino]
The verdict
“pato capuchino” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Anas versicolor (Vieillot) Semejante al pato jergón chico, una subespecie habita entre Santiago y Chiloé, la otra desde Valdivia a Magallanes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pato capuchino |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈpat̪o kapuˈt͡ʃino] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pato capuchino” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pato capuchino is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpat̪o kapuˈt͡ʃino]. 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 versicolor (Vieillot) Semejante al pato jergón chico, una subespecie habita entre Santiago y Chiloé, la otra desde Valdivia a Magallanes.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pato capuchino 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 capuchino, spelled P-A-T-O- -C-A-P-U-C-H-I-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Anas versicolor (Vieillot) Semejante al pato jergón chico, una subespecie habita entre Santiago y Chiloé, la otra desde Valdivia a Magallanes.
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-T-O- -C-A-P-U-C-H-I-N-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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