yerba mate
Letters
10 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
yerba mate is aSpanishphrase. It means: (Ilex paraguariensis) Planta arbustiva neotropical originaria de la cuenca del río Paraná, en Sudamérica, donde crece en estado silvestre. Se cultiva por sus hojas y ramas, con las que una vez seca... Pronounced [ˈʝeɾβ̞a ˈmat̪e].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yerba mate |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈʝeɾβ̞a ˈmat̪e] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for yerba mate is 10 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʝeɾβ̞a ˈmat̪e]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for yerba mate 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 yerba mate, spelled Y-E-R-B-A- -M-A-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Ilex paraguariensis) Planta arbustiva neotropical originaria de la cuenca del río Paraná, en Sudamérica, donde crece en estado silvestre. Se cultiva por sus hojas y ramas, con las que una vez secas y molidas, se prepara el mate, una infusión estimulante de uso similar al té y café.
- 2Por extensión, las hojas y tallos secos y molidos de esta planta, preparados para ser usados luego en infusión.
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