mate
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,719
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
mate is aSpanishnoun. It means: Infusión de yerba mate consumida como bebida estimulante. Tradicionalmente, se sirve en un pote hecho de calabaza seca y se bebe con una bombilla metálica. Es común en la gastronomía de Argentina, ... Pronounced [ˈmat̪e]. It ranks #3,719 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with max and may.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mate |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmat̪e] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #3,719 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mate is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmat̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,719 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for mate, with forms such as "amte", "maet", and "matte". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "max", "may", "mit", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 mate, spelled M-A-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Infusión de yerba mate consumida como bebida estimulante. Tradicionalmente, se sirve en un pote hecho de calabaza seca y se bebe con una bombilla metálica. Es común en la gastronomía de Argentina, Brasil, Paraguay, Uruguay y Bolivia (Tarija).
- 2Por extensión, bebida obtenida de remojar en agua cualquier hierba aromática.
- 3Recipiente elaborado a partir de una calabaza, de asta, metal u otro material donde se toma la infusión.
- 4(Lagenaria siceraria) Planta de la familia de las Cucurbitáceas, cuyas calabazas son usadas para crear vasos para tomar mate₁.
- 5Cabeza (parte corporal).
- 6Por metonimia, capacidad de pensamiento y de juicio.
- 7Semilla o poroto con que juegan los muchachos.^([cita requerida]).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amte,maet,matte,mmate,mtae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mate
Misspelling Variants of "mate"
Frequency rank: #3,719 in Spanish
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