apretón de manos
[apɾeˈt̪õn̪ d̪e ˈmanos]
The verdict
“apretón de manos” 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) - Acción de apretarse las manos como muestra de saludo o deferencia.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apretón de manos |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [apɾeˈt̪õn̪ d̪e ˈmanos] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “apretón de manos” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for apretón de manos is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [apɾeˈt̪õn̪ d̪e ˈmanos]. 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: "Acción de apretarse las manos como muestra de saludo o deferencia.".
No misspelling variants are generated for apretón de manos 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 apretón de manos, spelled A-P-R-E-T-Ó-N- -D-E- -M-A-N-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción de apretarse las manos como muestra de saludo o deferencia.
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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- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-P-R-E-T-Ó-N- -D-E- -M-A-N-O-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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