salto mortal
The verdict
“salto mortal” 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
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Prueba de destreza acrobática en la que una persona rota alrededor de su plano medio, moviendo sus pies por encima de su cabeza.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salto mortal |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈsal̪t̪o moɾˈt̪al] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “salto mortal” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for salto mortal is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsal̪t̪o moɾˈt̪al]. 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: "Prueba de destreza acrobática en la que una persona rota alrededor de su plano medio, moviendo sus pies por encima de su cabeza.".
No misspelling variants are generated for salto mortal 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 mortal, spelled S-A-L-T-O- -M-O-R-T-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Prueba de destreza acrobática en la que una persona rota alrededor de su plano medio, moviendo sus pies por encima de su cabeza.
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Using “salto mortal”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is S-A-L-T-O- -M-O-R-T-A-L — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈsal̪t̪o moɾˈt̪al] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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