mari mari
[ˌma.ɹiˈma.ɹi]
The verdict
“mari mari” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as an interjection - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Saludo de manos al encontrarse o al despedirse. La forma de saludarse es tomar con la mano derecha la correspondiente del interlocutor mientras con la mano izquierda se toma su muñeca derecha.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mari mari |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [ˌma.ɹiˈma.ɹi] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mari mari” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mari mari is 9 letters long, classified as an interjection, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌma.ɹiˈma.ɹi]. 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: "Saludo de manos al encontrarse o al despedirse. La forma de saludarse es tomar con la mano derecha la correspondiente del interlocutor mientras con la mano izquierda se toma su muñeca derecha.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mari mari 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 mari mari, spelled M-A-R-I- -M-A-R-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Saludo de manos al encontrarse o al despedirse. La forma de saludarse es tomar con la mano derecha la correspondiente del interlocutor mientras con la mano izquierda se toma su muñeca derecha.
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-R-I- -M-A-R-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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