mate del pastor
The verdict
“mate del pastor” 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
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Mate dado en pocas jugadas con la dama apoyada por el alfil debido a la falta de atención del rival a la necesidad de defender la casilla f7 (o f2).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mate del pastor |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈmat̪e ð̞el pasˈt̪oɾ] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mate del pastor” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mate del pastor is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmat̪e ð̞el pasˈt̪oɾ]. 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 en pocas jugadas con la dama apoyada por el alfil debido a la falta de atención del rival a la necesidad de defender la casilla f7 (o f2).".
No misspelling variants are generated for mate del pastor 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 del pastor, spelled M-A-T-E- -D-E-L- -P-A-S-T-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mate dado en pocas jugadas con la dama apoyada por el alfil debido a la falta de atención del rival a la necesidad de defender la casilla f7 (o f2).
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Using “mate del pastor”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-A-T-E- -D-E-L- -P-A-S-T-O-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈmat̪e ð̞el pasˈt̪oɾ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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