manotazo de ahogado
[manoˈt̪aso ð̞e aoˈɣ̞að̞o]
The verdict
“manotazo de ahogado” 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
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Acción desesperada para intentar salvarse de una situación en donde es inminente que todo está por echarse a perder.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manotazo de ahogado |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [manoˈt̪aso ð̞e aoˈɣ̞að̞o] |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “manotazo de ahogado” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for manotazo de ahogado is 19 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [manoˈt̪aso ð̞e aoˈɣ̞að̞o]. 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: "Acción desesperada para intentar salvarse de una situación en donde es inminente que todo está por echarse a perder.".
No misspelling variants are generated for manotazo de ahogado 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 manotazo de ahogado, spelled M-A-N-O-T-A-Z-O- -D-E- -A-H-O-G-A-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción desesperada para intentar salvarse de una situación en donde es inminente que todo está por echarse a perder.
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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- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-A-N-O-T-A-Z-O- -D-E- -A-H-O-G-A-D-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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