uno que otro

/[ˈuno ke ˈot̪ɾo]/ phrase

Letters

12 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

uno que otro is aSpanishphrase. It means: Se refiere a un número pequeño de individuos u objetos entre un conjunto mayor: algunos, pero pocos. Pronounced [ˈuno ke ˈot̪ɾo].

Key facts for uno que otro
PropertyValue
Headworduno que otro
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈuno ke ˈot̪ɾo]
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

uno que otro is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for uno que otro is 12 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈuno ke ˈot̪ɾo]. 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: "Se refiere a un número pequeño de individuos u objetos entre un conjunto mayor: algunos, pero pocos.".

No misspelling variants are generated for uno que otro 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 uno que otro, spelled U-N-O- -Q-U-E- -O-T-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Se refiere a un número pequeño de individuos u objetos entre un conjunto mayor: algunos, pero pocos.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "uno que otro"?
"uno que otro" is spelled U-N-O- -Q-U-E- -O-T-R-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈuno ke ˈot̪ɾo].
What does "uno que otro" mean?
As a phrase, "uno que otro" means: Se refiere a un número pequeño de individuos u objetos entre un conjunto mayor: algunos, pero pocos.
How do you pronounce "uno que otro"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "uno que otro" is [ˈuno ke ˈot̪ɾo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "uno que otro" come from?
"uno que otro" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.