mate cola de golondrina

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for mate cola de golondrina is 23 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmat̪e ˈkola ð̞e ɣ̞olõn̪ˈd̪ɾina]. 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: "Mate dado por una dama enfrentada contra un rey en fuera de la última fila, en donde hay dos piezas en las diagonales de atrás que le impiden escapar al rey enemigo hacia la banda.".

No misspelling variants are generated for mate cola de golondrina 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 mate cola de golondrina, spelled M-A-T-E- -C-O-L-A- -D-E- -G-O-L-O-N-D-R-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.