Palma de Mallorca

/[ˈpalma ð̞e maˈʝoɾka]/ name

The verdict

“Palma de Mallorca” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a proper noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency Spanish
17
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Ciudad de España, capital de las Islas Baleares.

Key facts for Palma de Mallorca
PropertyValue
HeadwordPalma de Mallorca
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechProper noun
IPA[ˈpalma ð̞e maˈʝoɾka]
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Palma de Mallorca” sits in Spanish frequency

Palma de Mallorca falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Spanish words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for Palma de Mallorca is 17 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpalma ð̞e maˈʝoɾka]. 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: "Ciudad de España, capital de las Islas Baleares.".

No misspelling variants are generated for Palma de Mallorca 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 Palma de Mallorca, spelled P-A-L-M-A- -D-E- -M-A-L-L-O-R-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ciudad de España, capital de las Islas Baleares.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Palma de Mallorca"?
"Palma de Mallorca" is spelled P-A-L-M-A- -D-E- -M-A-L-L-O-R-C-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈpalma ð̞e maˈʝoɾka].
What does "Palma de Mallorca" mean?
As a proper noun, "Palma de Mallorca" means: Ciudad de España, capital de las Islas Baleares.
How do you pronounce "Palma de Mallorca"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Palma de Mallorca" is [ˈpalma ð̞e maˈʝoɾka]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Palma de Mallorca" come from?
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Using “Palma de Mallorca”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Spanish spelling is P-A-L-M-A- -D-E- -M-A-L-L-O-R-C-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [ˈpalma ð̞e maˈʝoɾka] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.