mate con punta
[ˈmat̪e kõn ˈpũn̪t̪a]
The verdict
“mate con punta” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Infusión de yerba mate a la que se le añaden gotas de alguna bebida alcohólica destilada, como aguardiente o pisco.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mate con punta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈmat̪e kõn ˈpũn̪t̪a] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mate con punta” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mate con punta is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmat̪e kõn ˈpũn̪t̪a]. 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: "Infusión de yerba mate a la que se le añaden gotas de alguna bebida alcohólica destilada, como aguardiente o pisco.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mate con punta 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 con punta, spelled M-A-T-E- -C-O-N- -P-U-N-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Infusión de yerba mate a la que se le añaden gotas de alguna bebida alcohólica destilada, como aguardiente o pisco.
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Using “mate con punta”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-A-T-E- -C-O-N- -P-U-N-T-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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