patria potestad
[ˈpat̪ɾja pot̪esˈt̪að̞]
The verdict
“patria potestad” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Conjunto de derechos y obligaciones que la ley reconoce a los padres sobre las personas y bienes de sus hijos mientras éstos son menores de edad o están incapacitados, con el objetivo de permitir e...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | patria potestad |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈpat̪ɾja pot̪esˈt̪að̞] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “patria potestad” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for patria potestad is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpat̪ɾja pot̪esˈt̪að̞]. 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: "Conjunto de derechos y obligaciones que la ley reconoce a los padres sobre las personas y bienes de sus hijos mientras éstos son menores de edad o están incapacitados, con el objetivo de permitir e...".
No misspelling variants are generated for patria potestad 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 patria potestad, spelled P-A-T-R-I-A- -P-O-T-E-S-T-A-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Conjunto de derechos y obligaciones que la ley reconoce a los padres sobre las personas y bienes de sus hijos mientras éstos son menores de edad o están incapacitados, con el objetivo de permitir el cumplimiento a aquellos de los deberes que tienen de sostenimiento y educación de éstos.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-A-T-R-I-A- -P-O-T-E-S-T-A-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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