pato cortacorrientes
[ˈpat̪o koɾt̪akoˈrjẽn̪t̪es]
The verdict
“pato cortacorrientes” 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Merganetta armata (Gould). Mide unos 42 cm Su característica forma de conseguir su alimento, nadando contra la corriente para poder sumergirse y consumir su alimento sin ser desplazado por el agua,...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pato cortacorrientes |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈpat̪o koɾt̪akoˈrjẽn̪t̪es] |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pato cortacorrientes” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pato cortacorrientes is 20 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpat̪o koɾt̪akoˈrjẽn̪t̪es]. 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: "Merganetta armata (Gould). Mide unos 42 cm Su característica forma de conseguir su alimento, nadando contra la corriente para poder sumergirse y consumir su alimento sin ser desplazado por el agua,...".
No misspelling variants are generated for pato cortacorrientes 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 cortacorrientes, spelled P-A-T-O- -C-O-R-T-A-C-O-R-R-I-E-N-T-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Merganetta armata (Gould). Mide unos 42 cm Su característica forma de conseguir su alimento, nadando contra la corriente para poder sumergirse y consumir su alimento sin ser desplazado por el agua, le ha valido su nombre. Vive en agua torrentosas donde otros patos no pueden alimentarse.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-A-T-O- -C-O-R-T-A-C-O-R-R-I-E-N-T-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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