juego de manos
The verdict
“juego de manos” 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
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Juego de habilidad que realizan los prestidigitadores para engañar a sus espectadores y realizar sus trucos de magia.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | juego de manos |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈxweɣ̞o ð̞e ˈmanos] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “juego de manos” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for juego de manos is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈxweɣ̞o ð̞e ˈmanos]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for juego de manos 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 juego de manos, spelled J-U-E-G-O- -D-E- -M-A-N-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Juego de habilidad que realizan los prestidigitadores para engañar a sus espectadores y realizar sus trucos de magia.
- 2Acción de darse palmadas dos o más personas con alguna coordinación por diversión.
- 3Forma delictiva de hacer desaparecer rápidamente algo que se tenía a la vista.
This word in other languages
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Using “juego de manos”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is J-U-E-G-O- -D-E- -M-A-N-O-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈxweɣ̞o ð̞e ˈmanos] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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