San José de Mayo

/[ˈsãŋ xoˈse ð̞e ˈmaʝo]/ name

The verdict

“San José de Mayo” 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
16
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Ciudad de Uruguay capital del Departamento de San José ubicada al sur del país.

Key facts for San José de Mayo
PropertyValue
HeadwordSan José de Mayo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechProper noun
IPA[ˈsãŋ xoˈse ð̞e ˈmaʝo]
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “San José de Mayo” sits in Spanish frequency

San José de Mayo 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 San José de Mayo is 16 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsãŋ xoˈse ð̞e ˈmaʝo]. 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: "Ciudad de Uruguay capital del Departamento de San José ubicada al sur del país.".

No misspelling variants are generated for San José de Mayo 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 San José de Mayo, spelled S-A-N- -J-O-S-É- -D-E- -M-A-Y-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ciudad de Uruguay capital del Departamento de San José ubicada al sur del país.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "San José de Mayo"?
"San José de Mayo" is spelled S-A-N- -J-O-S-É- -D-E- -M-A-Y-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈsãŋ xoˈse ð̞e ˈmaʝo].
What does "San José de Mayo" mean?
As a proper noun, "San José de Mayo" means: Ciudad de Uruguay capital del Departamento de San José ubicada al sur del país.
How do you pronounce "San José de Mayo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "San José de Mayo" is [ˈsãŋ xoˈse ð̞e ˈmaʝo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "San José de Mayo" come from?
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Using “San José de Mayo”

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

  • The one correct Spanish spelling is S-A-N- -J-O-S-É- -D-E- -M-A-Y-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [ˈsãŋ xoˈse ð̞e ˈmaʝo] (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.