pato colorado
The verdict
“pato colorado” 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
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Anas cyanoptera (Vieillot). Posee una tonalidad rojo ladrillo que lo hace inconfundible; su lomo es negro, el pico es negro y las patas, amarillas. Mide entre 44 y 48 cm. En Chile viven dos subespe...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pato colorado |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈpat̪o koloˈɾað̞o] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pato colorado” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pato colorado is 13 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpat̪o koloˈɾað̞o]. 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 cyanoptera (Vieillot). Posee una tonalidad rojo ladrillo que lo hace inconfundible; su lomo es negro, el pico es negro y las patas, amarillas. Mide entre 44 y 48 cm. En Chile viven dos subespe...".
No misspelling variants are generated for pato colorado 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 colorado, spelled P-A-T-O- -C-O-L-O-R-A-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Anas cyanoptera (Vieillot). Posee una tonalidad rojo ladrillo que lo hace inconfundible; su lomo es negro, el pico es negro y las patas, amarillas. Mide entre 44 y 48 cm. En Chile viven dos subespecies.
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Using “pato colorado”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-A-T-O- -C-O-L-O-R-A-D-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈpat̪o koloˈɾað̞o] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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