Salto Ángel

/[ˈsal̪t̪o ˈãŋxel]/ name

The verdict

“Salto Ángel” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a proper noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency Spanish
11
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Caída de agua o cascada más grande del mundo, con una altura de 979 m, ubicada en el Parque Nacional Canaima, Estado de Bolívar, Venezuela. La zona fue establecida como parque nacional el 12 de jun...

Key facts for Salto Ángel
PropertyValue
HeadwordSalto Ángel
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechProper noun
IPA[ˈsal̪t̪o ˈãŋxel]
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Salto Ángel” sits in Spanish frequency

Salto Ángel 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 Salto Ángel is 11 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsal̪t̪o ˈãŋxel]. 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: "Caída de agua o cascada más grande del mundo, con una altura de 979 m, ubicada en el Parque Nacional Canaima, Estado de Bolívar, Venezuela. La zona fue establecida como parque nacional el 12 de jun...".

No misspelling variants are generated for Salto Ángel 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 Salto Ángel, spelled S-A-L-T-O- -Á-N-G-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Caída de agua o cascada más grande del mundo, con una altura de 979 m, ubicada en el Parque Nacional Canaima, Estado de Bolívar, Venezuela. La zona fue establecida como parque nacional el 12 de junio de 1962.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Salto Ángel"?
"Salto Ángel" is spelled S-A-L-T-O- -Á-N-G-E-L. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈsal̪t̪o ˈãŋxel].
What does "Salto Ángel" mean?
As a proper noun, "Salto Ángel" means: Caída de agua o cascada más grande del mundo, con una altura de 979 m, ubicada en el Parque Nacional Canaima, Estado de Bolívar, Venezuela. La zona fue establecida como parque nacional el 12 de jun...
How do you pronounce "Salto Ángel"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Salto Ángel" is [ˈsal̪t̪o ˈãŋxel]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Salto Ángel" come from?
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Using “Salto Ángel”

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

  • The one correct Spanish spelling is S-A-L-T-O- -Á-N-G-E-L — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [ˈsal̪t̪o ˈãŋxel] (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.