San José de Mayo
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | San José de Mayo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈsãŋ xoˈse ð̞e ˈmaʝo] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “San José de Mayo” sits in Spanish frequency
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
- 1Ciudad de Uruguay capital del Departamento de San José ubicada al sur del país.
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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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