pato negro
The verdict
“pato negro” 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
- 10
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Netta peposaca (Vieillot) Es un pato grande, 55 cm, con un marcado dimorfismo sexual. El macho tiene el pico rosado intenso, la cabeza, el pecho y el cuello son negros con un brillo púrpura que lo ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pato negro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈpat̪o ˈneɣ̞ɾo] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pato negro” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pato negro is 10 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpat̪o ˈneɣ̞ɾo]. 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: "Netta peposaca (Vieillot) Es un pato grande, 55 cm, con un marcado dimorfismo sexual. El macho tiene el pico rosado intenso, la cabeza, el pecho y el cuello son negros con un brillo púrpura que lo ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for pato negro 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 negro, spelled P-A-T-O- -N-E-G-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Netta peposaca (Vieillot) Es un pato grande, 55 cm, con un marcado dimorfismo sexual. El macho tiene el pico rosado intenso, la cabeza, el pecho y el cuello son negros con un brillo púrpura que lo hacen inconfundible. Vive desde Atacama hasta Magallanes en Chile.
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Using “pato negro”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-A-T-O- -N-E-G-R-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈpat̪o ˈneɣ̞ɾo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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