a Dios rogando y con el mazo dando

/[a ˈð̞jos roˈɣ̞ãn̪d̪o i kõn el ˈmaso ˈð̞ãn̪d̪o]/ proverb

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34 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

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a Dios rogando y con el mazo dando is aSpanishproverb. It means: La oración debe estar acompañada de las obras. Pronounced [a ˈð̞jos roˈɣ̞ãn̪d̪o i kõn el ˈmaso ˈð̞ãn̪d̪o].

Key facts for a Dios rogando y con el mazo dando
PropertyValue
Headworda Dios rogando y con el mazo dando
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechProverb
IPA[a ˈð̞jos roˈɣ̞ãn̪d̪o i kõn el ˈmaso ˈð̞ãn̪d̪o]
Letters34
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

a Dios rogando y con el mazo dando is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for a Dios rogando y con el mazo dando is 34 letters long, classified as aproverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [a ˈð̞jos roˈɣ̞ãn̪d̪o i kõn el ˈmaso ˈð̞ãn̪d̪o]. 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 a Dios rogando y con el mazo dando 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 Dios rogando y con el mazo dando, spelled A- -D-I-O-S- -R-O-G-A-N-D-O- -Y- -C-O-N- -E-L- -M-A-Z-O- -D-A-N-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    La oración debe estar acompañada de las obras.
  2. 2
    Se aplica también, para señalar su doble moral, a aquellas personas que siendo muy beatas hacen lo contrario de lo que predican.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "a Dios rogando y con el mazo dando"?
"a Dios rogando y con el mazo dando" is spelled A- -D-I-O-S- -R-O-G-A-N-D-O- -Y- -C-O-N- -E-L- -M-A-Z-O- -D-A-N-D-O. The IPA pronunciation is [a ˈð̞jos roˈɣ̞ãn̪d̪o i kõn el ˈmaso ˈð̞ãn̪d̪o].
What does "a Dios rogando y con el mazo dando" mean?
As a proverb, "a Dios rogando y con el mazo dando" means: La oración debe estar acompañada de las obras.
How do you pronounce "a Dios rogando y con el mazo dando"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "a Dios rogando y con el mazo dando" is [a ˈð̞jos roˈɣ̞ãn̪d̪o i kõn el ˈmaso ˈð̞ãn̪d̪o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "a Dios rogando y con el mazo dando" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.