brit milá
[ˈbɾit̪ miˈla]
The verdict
“brit milá” 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
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ceremonia por la cual a los infantes judíos varones se remueve el prepucio del pene, como se prescribe en Génesis 17:1-14, para formar parte del pueblo de Israel.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brit milá |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈbɾit̪ miˈla] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “brit milá” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for brit milá is 9 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbɾit̪ miˈla]. 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: "Ceremonia por la cual a los infantes judíos varones se remueve el prepucio del pene, como se prescribe en Génesis 17:1-14, para formar parte del pueblo de Israel.".
No misspelling variants are generated for brit milá 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 brit milá, spelled B-R-I-T- -M-I-L-Á, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ceremonia por la cual a los infantes judíos varones se remueve el prepucio del pene, como se prescribe en Génesis 17:1-14, para formar parte del pueblo de Israel.
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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-R-I-T- -M-I-L-Á - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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