besar la mano
[beˈsaɾ la ˈmano]
The verdict
“besar la mano” 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Acción que expresada a través de la palabra muestra deferencia y cortesía, y que además se puede utilizar tanto en el lenguaje hablado como en el escrito.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | besar la mano |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [beˈsaɾ la ˈmano] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “besar la mano” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for besar la mano is 13 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [beˈsaɾ la ˈmano]. 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 que expresada a través de la palabra muestra deferencia y cortesía, y que además se puede utilizar tanto en el lenguaje hablado como en el escrito.".
No misspelling variants are generated for besar la mano 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 besar la mano, spelled B-E-S-A-R- -L-A- -M-A-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción que expresada a través de la palabra muestra deferencia y cortesía, y que además se puede utilizar tanto en el lenguaje hablado como en el escrito.
Synonyms
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Using “besar la mano”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is B-E-S-A-R- -L-A- -M-A-N-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [beˈsaɾ la ˈmano] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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