mate de Blackburne
[ˈmat̪e ð̞e β̞lakˈβ̞uɾne]
The verdict
“mate de Blackburne” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Esquema de mate que utiliza a la torre contraria (aunque también puede ser un alfil o la dama) para quitar al rey el escape por la columna f. Uno de los alfiles restringe a distancia los movimiento...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mate de Blackburne |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈmat̪e ð̞e β̞lakˈβ̞uɾne] |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mate de Blackburne” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mate de Blackburne is 18 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmat̪e ð̞e β̞lakˈβ̞uɾne]. 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: "Esquema de mate que utiliza a la torre contraria (aunque también puede ser un alfil o la dama) para quitar al rey el escape por la columna f. Uno de los alfiles restringe a distancia los movimiento...".
No misspelling variants are generated for mate de Blackburne 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 de Blackburne, spelled M-A-T-E- -D-E- -B-L-A-C-K-B-U-R-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Esquema de mate que utiliza a la torre contraria (aunque también puede ser un alfil o la dama) para quitar al rey el escape por la columna f. Uno de los alfiles restringe a distancia los movimientos del rey contrario controlando las casillas de un color, mientras que el otro alfil da mate apoyado por el caballo que controla las demás casillas enfrente del rey.
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-T-E- -D-E- -B-L-A-C-K-B-U-R-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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