letra mayúscula
The verdict
“letra mayúscula” 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
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Letra que se escribe más grande y generalmente con diferente forma que la minúscula. Se emplea como inicial de nombres propios, después de punto y en otros casos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | letra mayúscula |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈlet̪ɾa maˈʝuskula] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “letra mayúscula” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for letra mayúscula is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlet̪ɾa maˈʝuskula]. 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: "Letra que se escribe más grande y generalmente con diferente forma que la minúscula. Se emplea como inicial de nombres propios, después de punto y en otros casos.".
No misspelling variants are generated for letra mayúscula 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 letra mayúscula, spelled L-E-T-R-A- -M-A-Y-Ú-S-C-U-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Letra que se escribe más grande y generalmente con diferente forma que la minúscula. Se emplea como inicial de nombres propios, después de punto y en otros casos.
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Using “letra mayúscula”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is L-E-T-R-A- -M-A-Y-Ú-S-C-U-L-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈlet̪ɾa maˈʝuskula] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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