martillo de cocina
The verdict
“martillo de cocina” 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
- 18
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Utensilio utilizado para reblandecer los tejidos de los cortes de carne, que generalmente tiene forma de maza y se usa dando repetidos golpes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | martillo de cocina |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [maɾˈt̪iʝo ð̞e koˈsina] |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “martillo de cocina” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for martillo de cocina is 18 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maɾˈt̪iʝo ð̞e koˈsina]. 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: "Utensilio utilizado para reblandecer los tejidos de los cortes de carne, que generalmente tiene forma de maza y se usa dando repetidos golpes.".
No misspelling variants are generated for martillo de cocina 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 martillo de cocina, spelled M-A-R-T-I-L-L-O- -D-E- -C-O-C-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Utensilio utilizado para reblandecer los tejidos de los cortes de carne, que generalmente tiene forma de maza y se usa dando repetidos golpes.
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-T-I-L-L-O- -D-E- -C-O-C-I-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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