tocar madera
[t̪oˈkaɾ maˈð̞eɾa]
The verdict
“tocar madera” 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
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Usada para ahuyentar una posible desgracia o evitar que algo salga mal.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tocar madera |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [t̪oˈkaɾ maˈð̞eɾa] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tocar madera” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tocar madera is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪oˈkaɾ maˈð̞eɾa]. 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: "Usada para ahuyentar una posible desgracia o evitar que algo salga mal.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tocar madera 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 tocar madera, spelled T-O-C-A-R- -M-A-D-E-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Usada para ahuyentar una posible desgracia o evitar que algo salga mal.
This word in other languages
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 “tocar madera”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is T-O-C-A-R- -M-A-D-E-R-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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