madre mía
[ˈmað̞ɾe ˈmia]
The verdict
“madre mía” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Usada tras una sorpresa, generalmente buena.
Corpus desk
Index ES-madre-mia · madre mía · Spanish
madre mía · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | madre mía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [ˈmað̞ɾe ˈmia] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “madre mía” en español
Rare enough to double-check
madre mía is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as aninterjection, transcribed [ˈmað̞ɾe ˈmia]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Usada tras una sorpresa, generalmente buena.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for madre mía, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is madre mía, spelled M-A-D-R-E- -M-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Usada tras una sorpresa, generalmente buena.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.