madrina
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,167
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
madrina is aSpanishnoun. It means: Mujer que tiene, presenta o asiste a otra persona al recibir ésta el sacramento del bautismo, de la confirmación, del matrimonio, o del orden. Pronounced [maˈð̞ɾina]. Often confused with María and Marín.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | madrina |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maˈð̞ɾina] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,167 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for madrina is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maˈð̞ɾina]. Corpus data places it at rank #19,167 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for madrina, with forms such as "amdrina", "maddrina", and "madirna". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "María", "Marín", "marina", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 madrina, spelled M-A-D-R-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mujer que tiene, presenta o asiste a otra persona al recibir ésta el sacramento del bautismo, de la confirmación, del matrimonio, o del orden.
- 2Mujer que presenta y acompaña a otra persona que recibe algún honor, grado, etc.
- 3Mujer que favorece o protege a otra persona en sus pretensiones, adelantamientos o designios.
- 4Poste o puntal de madera.
- 5Cuerda o correa con que se enlazan los bocados de los caballos que forman pareja en un tiro, para obligarlos a marchar con igualdad.
- 6Yegua que sirve de guía a una manada de caballos.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amdrina,maddrina,madirna,madrian,madrinna,madrnia,madrrina,mardina,mdarina,mmadrina
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Misspelling Variants of "madrina"
Frequency rank: #19,167 in Spanish
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