tercer sector
The verdict
“tercer sector” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Sector económico integrado por entidades que no pertenecen al sector público - oficial ni a las organizaciones privadas lucrativas, se caracterizan por actuar en el espacio público propio de la soc...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tercer sector |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪eɾˈseɾ sekˈt̪oɾ] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tercer sector” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tercer sector is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪eɾˈseɾ sekˈt̪oɾ]. 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: "Sector económico integrado por entidades que no pertenecen al sector público - oficial ni a las organizaciones privadas lucrativas, se caracterizan por actuar en el espacio público propio de la soc...".
No misspelling variants are generated for tercer sector 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 tercer sector, spelled T-E-R-C-E-R- -S-E-C-T-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sector económico integrado por entidades que no pertenecen al sector público - oficial ni a las organizaciones privadas lucrativas, se caracterizan por actuar en el espacio público propio de la sociedad civil.
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Using “tercer sector”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is T-E-R-C-E-R- -S-E-C-T-O-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [t̪eɾˈseɾ sekˈt̪oɾ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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