mate encajado
[ˈmat̪e ẽŋkaˈxað̞o]
The verdict
“mate encajado” 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 en una casilla diagonal frente al rey enemigo, que tiene dos piezas propias en las diagonales por las que podría haber escapado.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mate encajado |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈmat̪e ẽŋkaˈxað̞o] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mate encajado” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mate encajado is 13 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmat̪e ẽŋkaˈxað̞o]. 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 en una casilla diagonal frente al rey enemigo, que tiene dos piezas propias en las diagonales por las que podría haber escapado.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mate encajado 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 encajado, spelled M-A-T-E- -E-N-C-A-J-A-D-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 en una casilla diagonal frente al rey enemigo, que tiene dos piezas propias en las diagonales por las que podría haber escapado.
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Using “mate encajado”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-A-T-E- -E-N-C-A-J-A-D-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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