salto de rana

/[ˈsal̪t̪o ð̞e ˈrana]/ phrase

The verdict

“salto de rana” 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
13
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Ejercicio que inicia desde una posición de sentadilla, luego se apoyan las manos en el suelo y se extienden las piernas hacia atrás para volver a la posición inicial y finalizar con un salto.

Key facts for salto de rana
PropertyValue
Headwordsalto de rana
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈsal̪t̪o ð̞e ˈrana]
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “salto de rana” sits in Spanish frequency

salto de rana 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 de rana is 13 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsal̪t̪o ð̞e ˈrana]. 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 que inicia desde una posición de sentadilla, luego se apoyan las manos en el suelo y se extienden las piernas hacia atrás para volver a la posición inicial y finalizar con un salto.".

No misspelling variants are generated for salto de rana 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 de rana, spelled S-A-L-T-O- -D-E- -R-A-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ejercicio que inicia desde una posición de sentadilla, luego se apoyan las manos en el suelo y se extienden las piernas hacia atrás para volver a la posición inicial y finalizar con un salto.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "salto de rana"?
"salto de rana" is spelled S-A-L-T-O- -D-E- -R-A-N-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈsal̪t̪o ð̞e ˈrana].
What does "salto de rana" mean?
As a phrase, "salto de rana" means: Ejercicio que inicia desde una posición de sentadilla, luego se apoyan las manos en el suelo y se extienden las piernas hacia atrás para volver a la posición inicial y finalizar con un salto.
How do you pronounce "salto de rana"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "salto de rana" is [ˈsal̪t̪o ð̞e ˈrana]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "salto de rana" come from?
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Using “salto de rana”

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

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