San Juan de Pasto
The verdict
“San Juan de Pasto” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a proper noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Capital del departamento colombiano de Nariño situada a 2.600 metros de altitud. Coordenadas decimales: 1.2°, -77.266667°.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | San Juan de Pasto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈsãŋ ˈxwãn̪ d̪e ˈpast̪o] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “San Juan de Pasto” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for San Juan de Pasto is 17 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsãŋ ˈxwãn̪ d̪e ˈpast̪o]. 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: "Capital del departamento colombiano de Nariño situada a 2.600 metros de altitud. Coordenadas decimales: 1.2°, -77.266667°.".
No misspelling variants are generated for San Juan de Pasto 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 San Juan de Pasto, spelled S-A-N- -J-U-A-N- -D-E- -P-A-S-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Capital del departamento colombiano de Nariño situada a 2.600 metros de altitud. Coordenadas decimales: 1.2°, -77.266667°.
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Using “San Juan de Pasto”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is S-A-N- -J-U-A-N- -D-E- -P-A-S-T-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈsãŋ ˈxwãn̪ d̪e ˈpast̪o] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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