besar las manos
[beˈsaɾ las ˈmanos]
The verdict
“besar las 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Acción comunicada a través de la palabra que muestra deferencia y cortesía, y que se utiliza tanto en la lengua hablada como en la escrita.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | besar las manos |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [beˈsaɾ las ˈmanos] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “besar las manos” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for besar las manos is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [beˈsaɾ las 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 comunicada a través de la palabra que muestra deferencia y cortesía, y que se utiliza tanto en la lengua hablada como en la escrita.".
No misspelling variants are generated for besar las 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 besar las manos, spelled B-E-S-A-R- -L-A-S- -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 comunicada a través de la palabra que muestra deferencia y cortesía, y que se utiliza tanto en la lengua hablada como en la escrita.
Synonyms
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 “besar las manos”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is B-E-S-A-R- -L-A-S- -M-A-N-O-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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