tiro libre
[ˈt̪iɾo ˈliβ̞ɾe]
The verdict
“tiro libre” 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
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — En el fútbol y otros deportes, lanzamiento, acción de lanzar la pelota para castigar una falta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tiro libre |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈt̪iɾo ˈliβ̞ɾe] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tiro libre” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tiro libre is 10 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪iɾo ˈliβ̞ɾe]. 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, lanzamiento, acción de lanzar la pelota para castigar una falta.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tiro libre 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 tiro libre, spelled T-I-R-O- -L-I-B-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1En el fútbol y otros deportes, lanzamiento, acción de lanzar la pelota para castigar una falta.
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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- The one correct Spanish spelling is T-I-R-O- -L-I-B-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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