metal de transición

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for metal de transición is 19 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [meˈt̪al̪ d̪e t̪ɾãnsiˈsjõn]. 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: "Cualquiera de un conjunto de elementos situados en la parte central de la tabla periódica de los elementos, cuya principal característica es la inclusión en su configuración electrónica del orbital...".

No misspelling variants are generated for metal de transición 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 metal de transición, spelled M-E-T-A-L- -D-E- -T-R-A-N-S-I-C-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.