mate de la coz

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for mate de la coz is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmat̪e ð̞e la ˈkos]. 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 un caballo contra un rey completamente encerrado por sus propias piezas.".

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