roca madre
[ˈroka ˈmað̞ɾe]
The verdict
“roca madre” 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
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Roca consolidada bajo las zonas recubiertas por materiales alterados o disgregados, suelos o regolitos, de la superficie de un planeta terrestre, por lo general de la Tierra.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roca madre |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈroka ˈmað̞ɾe] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “roca madre” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for roca madre is 10 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈroka ˈmað̞ɾe]. 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: "Roca consolidada bajo las zonas recubiertas por materiales alterados o disgregados, suelos o regolitos, de la superficie de un planeta terrestre, por lo general de la Tierra.".
No misspelling variants are generated for roca madre 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 roca madre, spelled R-O-C-A- -M-A-D-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Roca consolidada bajo las zonas recubiertas por materiales alterados o disgregados, suelos o regolitos, de la superficie de un planeta terrestre, por lo general de la Tierra.
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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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- The one correct Spanish spelling is R-O-C-A- -M-A-D-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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