masteleros de gavia
[mast̪eˈleɾos ð̞e ˈɣ̞aβ̞ja]
The verdict
“masteleros de gavia” 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) - Palos menores, masteleros, ubicados sobre el palo mayor, que lleva la gavia y su verga; y sobre el trinquete que lleva el velacho.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | masteleros de gavia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [mast̪eˈleɾos ð̞e ˈɣ̞aβ̞ja] |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “masteleros de gavia” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for masteleros de gavia is 19 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [mast̪eˈleɾos ð̞e ˈɣ̞aβ̞ja]. 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: "Palos menores, masteleros, ubicados sobre el palo mayor, que lleva la gavia y su verga; y sobre el trinquete que lleva el velacho.".
No misspelling variants are generated for masteleros de gavia 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 masteleros de gavia, spelled M-A-S-T-E-L-E-R-O-S- -D-E- -G-A-V-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Palos menores, masteleros, ubicados sobre el palo mayor, que lleva la gavia y su verga; y sobre el trinquete que lleva el velacho.
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-S-T-E-L-E-R-O-S- -D-E- -G-A-V-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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