hijo de madre
The verdict
“hijo de madre” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Denota la semejanza del hijo con su madre
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hijo de madre |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈixo ð̞e ˈmað̞ɾe] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hijo de madre” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for hijo de madre is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈixo ð̞e ˈmað̞ɾe]. 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: "Denota la semejanza del hijo con su madre".
No misspelling variants are generated for hijo de madre 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 hijo de madre, spelled H-I-J-O- -D-E- -M-A-D-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Denota la semejanza del hijo con su madre
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Using “hijo de madre”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is H-I-J-O- -D-E- -M-A-D-R-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈixo ð̞e ˈmað̞ɾe] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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