patronímico

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for patronímico is 11 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pat̪ɾoˈnimiko]. Corpus data places it at rank #96,629 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Designación de filiación o linaje como segundo nombre o apellido de hijos u otros descendientes, derivado del respectivo nombre del padre o de algún ancestro.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for patronímico in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 patronímico, spelled P-A-T-R-O-N-Í-M-I-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.