pato gargantillo
[ˈpat̪o ɣ̞aɾɣ̞ãn̪ˈt̪iʝo]
The verdict
“pato gargantillo” 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
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Anas bahamensis (Linné). De unos 49 cm es un pato que vive en Norteamérica alcanzando la zona central de Argentina.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pato gargantillo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈpat̪o ɣ̞aɾɣ̞ãn̪ˈt̪iʝo] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pato gargantillo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pato gargantillo is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpat̪o ɣ̞aɾɣ̞ãn̪ˈt̪iʝo]. 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: "Anas bahamensis (Linné). De unos 49 cm es un pato que vive en Norteamérica alcanzando la zona central de Argentina.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pato gargantillo 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 gargantillo, spelled P-A-T-O- -G-A-R-G-A-N-T-I-L-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Anas bahamensis (Linné). De unos 49 cm es un pato que vive en Norteamérica alcanzando la zona central de Argentina.
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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