mano de monja
[ˈmano ð̞e ˈmõŋxa]
The verdict
“mano de monja” 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Gran habilidad en la preparación culinaria.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mano de monja |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈmano ð̞e ˈmõŋxa] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mano de monja” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mano de monja is 13 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmano ð̞e ˈmõŋxa]. 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: "Gran habilidad en la preparación culinaria.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mano de monja 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 mano de monja, spelled M-A-N-O- -D-E- -M-O-N-J-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Gran habilidad en la preparación culinaria.
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.
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Using “mano de monja”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-A-N-O- -D-E- -M-O-N-J-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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