tizón de la papa
[t̪iˈsõn̪ d̪e la ˈpapa]
The verdict
“tizón de la papa” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Enfermedad que afecta a las papas, tomates y a otras solanáceas, causada por la infección parásita del protista fungoide Phytophthora infestans.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tizón de la papa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [t̪iˈsõn̪ d̪e la ˈpapa] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tizón de la papa” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tizón de la papa is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪iˈsõn̪ d̪e la ˈpapa]. 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: "Enfermedad que afecta a las papas, tomates y a otras solanáceas, causada por la infección parásita del protista fungoide Phytophthora infestans.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tizón de la papa 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 tizón de la papa, spelled T-I-Z-Ó-N- -D-E- -L-A- -P-A-P-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Enfermedad que afecta a las papas, tomates y a otras solanáceas, causada por la infección parásita del protista fungoide Phytophthora infestans.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is T-I-Z-Ó-N- -D-E- -L-A- -P-A-P-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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