tarjeta roja

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for tarjeta roja is 12 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪aɾˈxet̪a ˈroxa]. 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: "En el fútbol y otros deportes, tarjeta que muestra el árbitro a algún jugador para expulsarlo del partido tras una infracción muy grave o tras acumular dos amarillas en un mismo partido.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for tarjeta roja in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 tarjeta roja, spelled T-A-R-J-E-T-A- -R-O-J-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.