viva la patria
[ˈbiβ̞a la ˈpat̪ɾja]
The verdict
“viva la patria” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as an interjection - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Exclamación de corte nacionalista-patriótica, que originalmente se usaba en contextos militares, para enaltecer el orgullo de la patria frente a pueblos extranjeros. Se responde con ¡viva!
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | viva la patria |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [ˈbiβ̞a la ˈpat̪ɾja] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “viva la patria” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for viva la patria is 14 letters long, classified as an interjection, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbiβ̞a la ˈpat̪ɾja]. 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: "Exclamación de corte nacionalista-patriótica, que originalmente se usaba en contextos militares, para enaltecer el orgullo de la patria frente a pueblos extranjeros. Se responde con ¡viva!".
No misspelling variants are generated for viva la patria 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 viva la patria, spelled V-I-V-A- -L-A- -P-A-T-R-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Exclamación de corte nacionalista-patriótica, que originalmente se usaba en contextos militares, para enaltecer el orgullo de la patria frente a pueblos extranjeros. Se responde con ¡viva!
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “viva la patria”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is V-I-V-A- -L-A- -P-A-T-R-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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