glúteo mayor
The verdict
“glúteo mayor” 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
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Músculo del miembro inferior, situado en la región posterior de la pelvis, y cuyas fibras están dispuestas de manera descendente.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glúteo mayor |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈglut̪eo maˈʝoɾ] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “glúteo mayor” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for glúteo mayor is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈglut̪eo maˈʝoɾ]. 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: "Músculo del miembro inferior, situado en la región posterior de la pelvis, y cuyas fibras están dispuestas de manera descendente.".
No misspelling variants are generated for glúteo mayor 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 glúteo mayor, spelled G-L-Ú-T-E-O- -M-A-Y-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Músculo del miembro inferior, situado en la región posterior de la pelvis, y cuyas fibras están dispuestas de manera descendente.
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Using “glúteo mayor”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is G-L-Ú-T-E-O- -M-A-Y-O-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈglut̪eo maˈʝoɾ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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