masa madre
[ˈmasa ˈmað̞ɾe]
The verdict
“masa madre” 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
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Masa leudada con levadura natural y espontáneamente, que se utiliza como ingrediente en la elaboración de los panes, como el de centeno, que no tienen suficiente gluten para un leudado directo. Se ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | masa madre |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈmasa ˈmað̞ɾe] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “masa madre” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for masa madre is 10 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmasa ˈmað̞ɾe]. 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: "Masa leudada con levadura natural y espontáneamente, que se utiliza como ingrediente en la elaboración de los panes, como el de centeno, que no tienen suficiente gluten para un leudado directo. Se ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for masa madre 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 masa madre, spelled M-A-S-A- -M-A-D-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Masa leudada con levadura natural y espontáneamente, que se utiliza como ingrediente en la elaboración de los panes, como el de centeno, que no tienen suficiente gluten para un leudado directo. Se elabora a temperatura ambiente, produciendo un pan de crecimiento lento, miga muy compacta y sabor intenso.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-A-S-A- -M-A-D-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈmasa ˈmað̞ɾe] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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