beso de la muerte
[ˈbeso ð̞e la ˈmweɾt̪e]
The verdict
“beso de la muerte” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Mate dado por la dama defendida por alguna pieza, que se pone enfrente de un rey sobre alguna de las bandas laterales.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beso de la muerte |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈbeso ð̞e la ˈmweɾt̪e] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “beso de la muerte” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for beso de la muerte is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbeso ð̞e la ˈmweɾt̪e]. 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: "Mate dado por la dama defendida por alguna pieza, que se pone enfrente de un rey sobre alguna de las bandas laterales.".
No misspelling variants are generated for beso de la muerte 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 beso de la muerte, spelled B-E-S-O- -D-E- -L-A- -M-U-E-R-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mate dado por la dama defendida por alguna pieza, que se pone enfrente de un rey sobre alguna de las bandas laterales.
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 B-E-S-O- -D-E- -L-A- -M-U-E-R-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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