huelga de hambre
[ˈ(ɣ̞)w̝elɣ̞a ð̞e ˈãmbɾe]
The verdict
“huelga de hambre” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Forma de protesta hecha por una o más personas, que consiste en dejar de ingerir alimentos durante el tiempo que haga falta hasta que lo que se solicita sea atendido o aceptado.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | huelga de hambre |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈ(ɣ̞)w̝elɣ̞a ð̞e ˈãmbɾe] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “huelga de hambre” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for huelga de hambre is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈ(ɣ̞)w̝elɣ̞a ð̞e ˈãmbɾe]. 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: "Forma de protesta hecha por una o más personas, que consiste en dejar de ingerir alimentos durante el tiempo que haga falta hasta que lo que se solicita sea atendido o aceptado.".
No misspelling variants are generated for huelga de hambre 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 huelga de hambre, spelled H-U-E-L-G-A- -D-E- -H-A-M-B-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Forma de protesta hecha por una o más personas, que consiste en dejar de ingerir alimentos durante el tiempo que haga falta hasta que lo que se solicita sea atendido o aceptado.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is H-U-E-L-G-A- -D-E- -H-A-M-B-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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