pena capital
[ˈpena kapiˈt̪al]
The verdict
“pena capital” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Sentencia aplicada por el poder judicial y que consiste en la ejecución de un condenado por parte del Estado, como castigo por un delito.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pena capital |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpena kapiˈt̪al] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pena capital” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pena capital is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpena kapiˈt̪al]. 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: "Sentencia aplicada por el poder judicial y que consiste en la ejecución de un condenado por parte del Estado, como castigo por un delito.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pena capital 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 pena capital, spelled P-E-N-A- -C-A-P-I-T-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sentencia aplicada por el poder judicial y que consiste en la ejecución de un condenado por parte del Estado, como castigo por un delito.
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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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- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-E-N-A- -C-A-P-I-T-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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