juez de paz
The verdict
“juez de paz” 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
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Persona que representa a la administración de justicia en la institución. Es el encargado de llevar a cabo trámites como: matrimonios civiles, actos de conciliación, nacimientos, defunciones, fes d...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | juez de paz |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈxwes ð̞e ˈpas] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “juez de paz” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for juez de paz is 11 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈxwes ð̞e ˈpas]. 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: "Persona que representa a la administración de justicia en la institución. Es el encargado de llevar a cabo trámites como: matrimonios civiles, actos de conciliación, nacimientos, defunciones, fes d...".
No misspelling variants are generated for juez de paz 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 juez de paz, spelled J-U-E-Z- -D-E- -P-A-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Persona que representa a la administración de justicia en la institución. Es el encargado de llevar a cabo trámites como: matrimonios civiles, actos de conciliación, nacimientos, defunciones, fes de vida, etcétera, y de poner en conocimiento de los ciudadanos cualquier tipo de comunicación que venga de otros juzgados, tomar declaraciones, citar para los juicios, tramitar expedientes. Deberá tramitar, celebrar y dictar sentencias en juicios de faltas por hechos de pequeña gravedad que hayan ocurrido en el municipio.
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Using “juez de paz”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is J-U-E-Z- -D-E- -P-A-Z - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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