Sanlúcar de Barrameda
The verdict
“Sanlúcar de Barrameda” 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
- 21
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Municipio de la provincia de Cádiz, España. Destaca por ser donde desemboca el río Guadalquivir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sanlúcar de Barrameda |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [sãnˈlukaɾ ð̞e β̞araˈmeð̞a] |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Sanlúcar de Barrameda” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Sanlúcar de Barrameda is 21 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sãnˈlukaɾ ð̞e β̞araˈmeð̞a]. 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: "Municipio de la provincia de Cádiz, España. Destaca por ser donde desemboca el río Guadalquivir.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Sanlúcar de Barrameda 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 Sanlúcar de Barrameda, spelled S-A-N-L-Ú-C-A-R- -D-E- -B-A-R-R-A-M-E-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Municipio de la provincia de Cádiz, España. Destaca por ser donde desemboca el río Guadalquivir.
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Using “Sanlúcar de Barrameda”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is S-A-N-L-Ú-C-A-R- -D-E- -B-A-R-R-A-M-E-D-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [sãnˈlukaɾ ð̞e β̞araˈmeð̞a] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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