pato de Berbería
The verdict
“pato de Berbería” 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
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: (Cairina moschata) Ave anátide, de plumaje mezclado de blanco y negro, criada como ave de corral en la mayor parte de América.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pato de Berbería |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈpat̪o ð̞e β̞eɾβ̞eˈɾia] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pato de Berbería” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pato de Berbería is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpat̪o ð̞e β̞eɾβ̞eˈɾia]. 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) Ave anátide, de plumaje mezclado de blanco y negro, criada como ave de corral en la mayor parte de América.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pato de Berbería 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 de Berbería, spelled P-A-T-O- -D-E- -B-E-R-B-E-R-Í-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Cairina moschata) Ave anátide, de plumaje mezclado de blanco y negro, criada como ave de corral en la mayor parte de América.
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Using “pato de Berbería”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-A-T-O- -D-E- -B-E-R-B-E-R-Í-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈpat̪o ð̞e β̞eɾβ̞eˈɾia] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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