sopa de letras
The verdict
“sopa de letras” 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
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Juego que consiste en encontrar un conjunto de palabras dadas que están ocultas dentro de una cuadrícula de letras.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sopa de letras |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈsopa ð̞e ˈlet̪ɾas] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sopa de letras” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for sopa de letras is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsopa ð̞e ˈlet̪ɾas]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for sopa de letras 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 sopa de letras, spelled S-O-P-A- -D-E- -L-E-T-R-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Juego que consiste en encontrar un conjunto de palabras dadas que están ocultas dentro de una cuadrícula de letras.
- 2Sopa que contiene pasta con forma de letras y números.
- 3Tipo de pasta con forma de letras y números.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “sopa de letras”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is S-O-P-A- -D-E- -L-E-T-R-A-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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