punto muerto

/[ˈpũn̪t̪o ˈmweɾt̪o]/ phrase

Letters

12 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

punto muerto is aSpanishphrase. It means: Posición de la caja de cambios en un vehículo en la que no hay puesta ninguna marcha. Pronounced [ˈpũn̪t̪o ˈmweɾt̪o].

Key facts for punto muerto
PropertyValue
Headwordpunto muerto
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈpũn̪t̪o ˈmweɾt̪o]
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

punto muerto is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for punto muerto is 12 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpũn̪t̪o 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: "Posición de la caja de cambios en un vehículo en la que no hay puesta ninguna marcha.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for punto muerto in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 punto muerto, spelled P-U-N-T-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

  1. 1
    Posición de la caja de cambios en un vehículo en la que no hay puesta ninguna marcha.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "punto muerto"?
"punto muerto" is spelled P-U-N-T-O- -M-U-E-R-T-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈpũn̪t̪o ˈmweɾt̪o].
What does "punto muerto" mean?
As a phrase, "punto muerto" means: Posición de la caja de cambios en un vehículo en la que no hay puesta ninguna marcha.
How do you pronounce "punto muerto"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "punto muerto" is [ˈpũn̪t̪o ˈmweɾt̪o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "punto muerto" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.