pato criollo
The verdict
“pato criollo” 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
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Cairina moschata (Linné). Especie de pato nativo de América, domesticada desde la Antigüedad. Es un ave de porte mediano, hasta 90 cm de largo en el macho y 3 kg de peso, con el plumaje oscuro salv...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pato criollo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈpat̪o ˈkɾjoʝo] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pato criollo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pato criollo is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpat̪o ˈkɾjoʝo]. 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: "Cairina moschata (Linné). Especie de pato nativo de América, domesticada desde la Antigüedad. Es un ave de porte mediano, hasta 90 cm de largo en el macho y 3 kg de peso, con el plumaje oscuro salv...".
No misspelling variants are generated for pato criollo 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 criollo, spelled P-A-T-O- -C-R-I-O-L-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cairina moschata (Linné). Especie de pato nativo de América, domesticada desde la Antigüedad. Es un ave de porte mediano, hasta 90 cm de largo en el macho y 3 kg de peso, con el plumaje oscuro salvo motas blancas en alas y cola, la cara roja y una distintiva barba en la base del pico; la hembra es parda y más pequeña. En algunas partes se ha asilvestrado y se le encuentra salvaje en libertad.
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Using “pato criollo”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-A-T-O- -C-R-I-O-L-L-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈpat̪o ˈkɾjoʝo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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