Tres Marías

/[ˈt̪ɾes maˈɾias]/ phrase

Letters

11 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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similar word pairs

Tres Marías is aSpanishphrase. It means: Grupo de estrellas (Alnitak, Alnilam y Mintaka) al centro de la constelación de Orión que conforman el cinturón del cazador, del cual pende la espada (las Tres Chepas). Pronounced [ˈt̪ɾes maˈɾias].

Key facts for Tres Marías
PropertyValue
HeadwordTres Marías
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈt̪ɾes maˈɾias]
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Tres Marías is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for Tres Marías is 11 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪ɾes maˈɾias]. 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: "Grupo de estrellas (Alnitak, Alnilam y Mintaka) al centro de la constelación de Orión que conforman el cinturón del cazador, del cual pende la espada (las Tres Chepas).".

No misspelling variants are generated for Tres Marías 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 Tres Marías, spelled T-R-E-S- -M-A-R-Í-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Grupo de estrellas (Alnitak, Alnilam y Mintaka) al centro de la constelación de Orión que conforman el cinturón del cazador, del cual pende la espada (las Tres Chepas).

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Tres Marías"?
"Tres Marías" is spelled T-R-E-S- -M-A-R-Í-A-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈt̪ɾes maˈɾias].
What does "Tres Marías" mean?
As a phrase, "Tres Marías" means: Grupo de estrellas (Alnitak, Alnilam y Mintaka) al centro de la constelación de Orión que conforman el cinturón del cazador, del cual pende la espada (las Tres Chepas).
How do you pronounce "Tres Marías"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Tres Marías" is [ˈt̪ɾes maˈɾias]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Tres Marías" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.