prevaricato
[pɾeβ̞aɾiˈkat̪o]
The verdict
“prevaricato” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Delito que comete un juez cuando dicta una sentencia o resolución de forma injusta y contraria a la ley.
Corpus desk
Index ES-prevaricato · prevaricato · Spanish
prevaricato · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prevaricato |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pɾeβ̞aɾiˈkat̪o] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
prevaricato is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [pɾeβ̞aɾiˈkat̪o]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for prevaricato, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is prevaricato, spelled P-R-E-V-A-R-I-C-A-T-O.
Definition
- 1Delito que comete un juez cuando dicta una sentencia o resolución de forma injusta y contraria a la ley.
- 2Delito que comete un abogado cuando falta a la parte que se supone que debía defender sus intereses.
This word in other languages
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.