peso muerto
[ˈpeso ˈmweɾt̪o]
The verdict
“peso muerto” 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
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ejercicio de gimnasio que consiste en levantar una pesa o mancuerna y dejar caer su peso mientras se hace el esfuerzo necesario para que no toque el suelo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peso muerto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈpeso ˈmweɾt̪o] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “peso muerto” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for peso muerto is 11 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpeso ˈmweɾt̪o]. 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: "Ejercicio de gimnasio que consiste en levantar una pesa o mancuerna y dejar caer su peso mientras se hace el esfuerzo necesario para que no toque el suelo.".
No misspelling variants are generated for peso muerto 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 peso muerto, spelled P-E-S-O- -M-U-E-R-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ejercicio de gimnasio que consiste en levantar una pesa o mancuerna y dejar caer su peso mientras se hace el esfuerzo necesario para que no toque el suelo.
This word in other languages
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 “peso muerto”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-E-S-O- -M-U-E-R-T-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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