Why does SpanishDict not have the word típicamente?
Típicamente is a commonly used Spanish, so why is it not in this dictionary?
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9 Answers
If you have a question about words, just ask the RAE directly, so I did:
Que una palabra no esté, como tal, en el Diccionario académico no significa que sea incorrecta o que no exista. Respecto de este tipo de palabras, en los preliminares del DRAE se hace el siguiente comentario: «Todas las voces derivadas de otras o formadas mediante composición, sin tener en cuenta la posibilidad de que su significado sea claramente deducible a partir de los elementos que las constituyen, pueden entrar a formar parte del Diccionario. Así sucede con los adverbios terminados en -mente, las voces que contienen los prefijos anti-, des-, etc. Podrá objetarse que las posibilidades de formación de nuevas palabras mediante estos procedimientos son prácticamente infinitas; pero lo cierto es que el uso real, en España y en América, acepta solo algunos neologismos de este tipo, mientras que rechaza otros. En este Diccionario solo aparecen aquellos términos que, vista la documentación de su empleo real, el Pleno académico ha decidido incluir». En ocasiones se presentan por su mayor uso, en otras si existe alguna duda sobre su empleo, en otras porque figuran dentro de las definiciones del diccionario... En todo caso, el significado de los adverbios en -mente que no se incluyen en el DRAE, es derivable de los significados de las partes que los componen.
That is: words ending in -mente are included if the sense may change or is unclear or because of the frequency of usage.
Not the clearest of explanations, but anyway...this is what they said
Please mind the first sentence: words that are not included ...it does not mean they don't exist.
En el diccionario de la Real Academia Española tampoco viene "típicamente" ,por lo tanto podemos decir que no existe.
http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/
JoyceM wrote:
In my Spanish class in Madrid this summer, our teacher explained that it is not good Spanish to say, tipicamente or usualmente. He felt that these words are English-izations popular in Latin America, but not to be used in Spain.
I was disappointed, because they are so much like the English that they are extremely easy to remember.
What to use, then? Habitualmente, a menudo, casi siempre.
Usualmente is in the RAE dictionary, but típicamente is not. Interesting quandary. I'm assuming that means it's OK to use usualmente?
I am looking into it...I find this rather confusing myself. I wonder what kind of criteria they use to include the word or not.
Very interesting. The dictionary often does not have adverbs that are made from adjectives. This must just be one of them.
In my Spanish class in Madrid this summer, our teacher explained that it is not good Spanish to say, tipicamente or usualmente. He felt that these words are English-izations popular in Latin America, but not to be used in Spain.
I was disappointed, because they are so much like the English that they are extremely easy to remember.
What to use, then? Habitualmente, a menudo, casi siempre.
Sometimes my Spanish textbook and teacher will tell me a word to memorize. I'll look it up; and it won't be there. sigh We must remember technology is evolving. Though completely annoying; no website is perfect. 
Even though sometimes it drives us nuts!!! 
Hey, if you people are interested in a real Spanish dictionary, get your hands on María Moliner's Diccionario de Uso del Español, published by Gredos in Madrid. It is over 1,500 pages. That will give all of you eager beavers something to chew on for a while, trust me. I always keep it on my desk.
But if you enter it in the search field at the top, the result reads "We're sorry, we could not find your word - típicamente - in the dictionary."
Hmm, I doubleclicked in your post and up it comes!!! 
