protervo
[pɾoˈt̪eɾβ̞o]
The verdict
“protervo” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Perverso, con obstinación, insolente.
Corpus desk
Index ES-protervo · protervo · Spanish
protervo · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | protervo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [pɾoˈt̪eɾβ̞o] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “protervo” en español
Rare enough to double-check
protervo is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [pɾoˈt̪eɾβ̞o]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Perverso, con obstinación, insolente.".
No misspelling variants are generated for protervo in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is protervo, spelled P-R-O-T-E-R-V-O.
Definition
- 1Perverso, con obstinación, insolente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how protervo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«Pero el nuevo rey, que viene al trono con ideas precisas, con aspiraciones elevadas, fruto de su gran ilustración, destruirá el maléfico influjo de aquel espíritu protervo, vagante en la selva del alma hispana».
«Y si a la sociedad es tan nocivo solo un hombre protervo y petulante, ¿qué será, ¡oh Dios!, un cuerpo colectivo hecho con levadura semejante?».
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.