alta mar
The verdict
“alta mar” 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
- 8
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Zona del mar alejada de las costas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alta mar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈal̪t̪a ˈmaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “alta mar” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for alta mar is 8 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈal̪t̪a ˈmaɾ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for alta mar 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 alta mar, spelled A-L-T-A- -M-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Zona del mar alejada de las costas.
- 2En particular, zona del mar sobre la que ningún Estado tiene soberanía, y sujeta a normas específicas de derecho.
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Using “alta mar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-L-T-A- -M-A-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈal̪t̪a ˈmaɾ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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