pato de Berbería

/[ˈpat̪o ð̞e β̞eɾβ̞eˈɾia]/ phrase

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.

Key facts for pato de Berbería
PropertyValue
Headwordpato de Berbería
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈpat̪o ð̞e β̞eɾβ̞eˈɾia]
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “pato de Berbería” sits in Spanish frequency

pato de Berbería falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Spanish words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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. 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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pato de Berbería"?
"pato de Berbería" is spelled P-A-T-O- -D-E- -B-E-R-B-E-R-Í-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈpat̪o ð̞e β̞eɾβ̞eˈɾia].
What does "pato de Berbería" mean?
As a phrase, "pato de Berbería" means: (Cairina moschata) Ave anátide, de plumaje mezclado de blanco y negro, criada como ave de corral en la mayor parte de América.
How do you pronounce "pato de Berbería"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pato de Berbería" is [ˈpat̪o ð̞e β̞eɾβ̞eˈɾia]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pato de Berbería" come from?
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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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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.