centro de mesa
[ˈsẽn̪t̪ɾo ð̞e ˈmesa]
The verdict
“centro de mesa” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Elemento decorativo que se utiliza en las mesas para adornarlas, normalmente situado en el centro de las mismas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | centro de mesa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈsẽn̪t̪ɾo ð̞e ˈmesa] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “centro de mesa” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for centro de mesa is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsẽn̪t̪ɾo ð̞e ˈmesa]. 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: "Elemento decorativo que se utiliza en las mesas para adornarlas, normalmente situado en el centro de las mismas.".
No misspelling variants are generated for centro de mesa 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 centro de mesa, spelled C-E-N-T-R-O- -D-E- -M-E-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Elemento decorativo que se utiliza en las mesas para adornarlas, normalmente situado en el centro de las mismas.
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 C-E-N-T-R-O- -D-E- -M-E-S-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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