pato cuchara
[ˈpat̪o kuˈt͡ʃaɾa]
The verdict
“pato cuchara” 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
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Anas platalea (Vieillot). Mide unos 51 cm y su aspecto es similar al del pato jergón grande, pero lo distigue su pico grande, negro ensanchándose en la punta. Vive en esteros, tanto como en aguas b...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pato cuchara |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈpat̪o kuˈt͡ʃaɾa] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pato cuchara” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pato cuchara is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpat̪o kuˈt͡ʃaɾa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for pato cuchara 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 cuchara, spelled P-A-T-O- -C-U-C-H-A-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Anas platalea (Vieillot). Mide unos 51 cm y su aspecto es similar al del pato jergón grande, pero lo distigue su pico grande, negro ensanchándose en la punta. Vive en esteros, tanto como en aguas barrosas desde el Norte Chico chileno hasta Magallanes.
- 2Ave ciconiforme que forma colonias en los árboles, de color blanco con el pico en forma de espátula.
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-U-C-H-A-R-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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