mate del triángulo

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for mate del triángulo is 18 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmat̪e ð̞el̪ ˈt̪ɾjãŋgulo]. 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 hecho por una dama enfrentada en diagonal contra un rey, apoyada por una torre. Similar al mate de la diagonal pero la torre además debe cubrir una casilla de escape al faltar una de las pieza...".

No misspelling variants are generated for mate del triángulo 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 triángulo, spelled M-A-T-E- -D-E-L- -T-R-I-Á-N-G-U-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.