salario mínimo

/[saˈlaɾjo ˈminimo]/ phrase

The verdict

“salario mínimo” 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
14
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: La remuneración laboral más pequeña establecida legislativamente a la que el trabajador tiene derecho a ser retribuido. Generalmente aplica a obreros, pensionados, jubilados y pasantes o becarios.

Key facts for salario mínimo
PropertyValue
Headwordsalario mínimo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[saˈlaɾjo ˈminimo]
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “salario mínimo” sits in Spanish frequency

salario mínimo 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 salario mínimo is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [saˈlaɾjo ˈminimo]. 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: "La remuneración laboral más pequeña establecida legislativamente a la que el trabajador tiene derecho a ser retribuido. Generalmente aplica a obreros, pensionados, jubilados y pasantes o becarios.".

No misspelling variants are generated for salario mínimo 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 salario mínimo, spelled S-A-L-A-R-I-O- -M-Í-N-I-M-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    La remuneración laboral más pequeña establecida legislativamente a la que el trabajador tiene derecho a ser retribuido. Generalmente aplica a obreros, pensionados, jubilados y pasantes o becarios.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "salario mínimo"?
"salario mínimo" is spelled S-A-L-A-R-I-O- -M-Í-N-I-M-O. The IPA pronunciation is [saˈlaɾjo ˈminimo].
What does "salario mínimo" mean?
As a phrase, "salario mínimo" means: La remuneración laboral más pequeña establecida legislativamente a la que el trabajador tiene derecho a ser retribuido. Generalmente aplica a obreros, pensionados, jubilados y pasantes o becarios.
How do you pronounce "salario mínimo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "salario mínimo" is [saˈlaɾjo ˈminimo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "salario mínimo" come from?
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Using “salario mínimo”

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

  • The one correct Spanish spelling is S-A-L-A-R-I-O- -M-Í-N-I-M-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [saˈlaɾjo ˈminimo] (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.