mate de Greco
[ˈmat̪e ð̞e ˈɣ̞ɾeko]
The verdict
“mate de Greco” 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Mate dado por una dama o torre en una columna lateral contra un rey esquinado, apoyada por un alfil que cubre la casilla lateral de escape y con un peón rival que impide que el rey escape en diagonal.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mate de Greco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈmat̪e ð̞e ˈɣ̞ɾeko] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mate de Greco” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mate de Greco is 13 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmat̪e ð̞e ˈɣ̞ɾeko]. 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 o torre en una columna lateral contra un rey esquinado, apoyada por un alfil que cubre la casilla lateral de escape y con un peón rival que impide que el rey escape en diagonal.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mate de Greco 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 Greco, spelled M-A-T-E- -D-E- -G-R-E-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mate dado por una dama o torre en una columna lateral contra un rey esquinado, apoyada por un alfil que cubre la casilla lateral de escape y con un peón rival que impide que el rey escape en diagonal.
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- -G-R-E-C-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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