mate de Pillsbury
[ˈmat̪e ð̞e pilsˈβ̞uɾi]
The verdict
“mate de Pillsbury” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Mate dado por una torre sobre una columna abierta en el enroque del rey rival, apoyada por un alfil que cubre una casilla de escape contra el rey, estando las casillas del otro lateral bloqueadas p...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mate de Pillsbury |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈmat̪e ð̞e pilsˈβ̞uɾi] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mate de Pillsbury” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mate de Pillsbury is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmat̪e ð̞e pilsˈβ̞uɾi]. 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 torre sobre una columna abierta en el enroque del rey rival, apoyada por un alfil que cubre una casilla de escape contra el rey, estando las casillas del otro lateral bloqueadas p...".
No misspelling variants are generated for mate de Pillsbury 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 Pillsbury, spelled M-A-T-E- -D-E- -P-I-L-L-S-B-U-R-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mate dado por una torre sobre una columna abierta en el enroque del rey rival, apoyada por un alfil que cubre una casilla de escape contra el rey, estando las casillas del otro lateral bloqueadas por la torre y los peones rivales. Es similar al mate de Morphy, con la diferencia de que el alfil puede apoyar desde cualquiera de las dos diagonales que cubren la casilla de escape.
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- -P-I-L-L-S-B-U-R-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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