krav magá
The verdict
“krav magá” 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
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Arte marcial, sistema oficial de defensa personal en Israel.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | krav magá |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkɾaβ̞ maˈɣ̞a] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “krav magá” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for krav magá is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkɾaβ̞ maˈɣ̞a]. 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: "Arte marcial, sistema oficial de defensa personal en Israel.".
No misspelling variants are generated for krav magá 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 krav magá, spelled K-R-A-V- -M-A-G-Á, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Arte marcial, sistema oficial de defensa personal en Israel.
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Using “krav magá”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is K-R-A-V- -M-A-G-Á — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈkɾaβ̞ maˈɣ̞a] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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