referéndum

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for referéndum is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [refeˈɾẽn̪d̪ũm]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,777 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Procedimiento democrático o elección, con el cual el cuerpo electoral de un país o nación expresa su voluntad respecto a un asunto o decisión.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for referéndum, with forms such as "erferéndum", "reefréndum", and "refernédum". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "referendo", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 referéndum, spelled R-E-F-E-R-É-N-D-U-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.