salvavidas de plomo
The verdict
“salvavidas de plomo” 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
- 19
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Intento de ayuda real o simulado que resulta más perjudicial que el mal que pretende resolver.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salvavidas de plomo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [salβ̞aˈβ̞ið̞as ð̞e ˈplomo] |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “salvavidas de plomo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for salvavidas de plomo is 19 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [salβ̞aˈβ̞ið̞as ð̞e ˈplomo]. 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: "Intento de ayuda real o simulado que resulta más perjudicial que el mal que pretende resolver.".
No misspelling variants are generated for salvavidas de plomo 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 salvavidas de plomo, spelled S-A-L-V-A-V-I-D-A-S- -D-E- -P-L-O-M-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Intento de ayuda real o simulado que resulta más perjudicial que el mal que pretende resolver.
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Using “salvavidas de plomo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is S-A-L-V-A-V-I-D-A-S- -D-E- -P-L-O-M-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [salβ̞aˈβ̞ið̞as ð̞e ˈplomo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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