perrito guardián
[peˈrit̪o ɣ̞waɾˈð̞jãn]
The verdict
“perrito guardián” 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) - En el juego de las escondidas, buscador que realiza la conducta antideportiva de quedarse en la zona inicial, y por lo tanto impide que puedan librarse quienes se escondieron.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perrito guardián |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [peˈrit̪o ɣ̞waɾˈð̞jãn] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “perrito guardián” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for perrito guardián is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [peˈrit̪o ɣ̞waɾˈð̞jãn]. 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: "En el juego de las escondidas, buscador que realiza la conducta antideportiva de quedarse en la zona inicial, y por lo tanto impide que puedan librarse quienes se escondieron.".
No misspelling variants are generated for perrito guardián 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 perrito guardián, spelled P-E-R-R-I-T-O- -G-U-A-R-D-I-Á-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1En el juego de las escondidas, buscador que realiza la conducta antideportiva de quedarse en la zona inicial, y por lo tanto impide que puedan librarse quienes se escondieron.
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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Using “perrito guardián”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-E-R-R-I-T-O- -G-U-A-R-D-I-Á-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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