papel maché
The verdict
“papel maché” 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
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Técnica artesanal originaria de China, en la que se tritura papel y se mezcla con agua y un aglutinante para producir una especie de pulpa, que se seca hasta formar una superficie dura, lo que perm...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | papel maché |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [paˈpel maˈt͡ʃe] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “papel maché” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for papel maché is 11 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [paˈpel maˈt͡ʃe]. 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: "Técnica artesanal originaria de China, en la que se tritura papel y se mezcla con agua y un aglutinante para producir una especie de pulpa, que se seca hasta formar una superficie dura, lo que perm...".
No misspelling variants are generated for papel maché 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 papel maché, spelled P-A-P-E-L- -M-A-C-H-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Técnica artesanal originaria de China, en la que se tritura papel y se mezcla con agua y un aglutinante para producir una especie de pulpa, que se seca hasta formar una superficie dura, lo que permite moldear objetos resistentes de formas arbitrarias.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “papel maché”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-A-P-E-L- -M-A-C-H-É — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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