a caballo regalado, no le mires el dentado

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for a caballo regalado, no le mires el dentado is 42 letters long, classified as aproverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [a kaˈβ̞aʝo reɣ̞aˈlað̞o | ˈno le ˈmiɾes el̪ d̪ẽn̪ˈt̪að̞o]. 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: "Úsase para criticar la actitud de las personas que, al recibir un beneficio fortuito o espontáneo, buscan destacar sus insuficiencias..".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for a caballo regalado, no le mires el dentado 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 a caballo regalado, no le mires el dentado, spelled A- -C-A-B-A-L-L-O- -R-E-G-A-L-A-D-O-,- -N-O- -L-E- -M-I-R-E-S- -E-L- -D-E-N-T-A-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.