a quien Dios no le da hijos, el diablo le da sobrinos

/[a kjẽn̪ ˈd̪jos ˈno le ˈð̞a ˈixos | el̪ ˈd̪jaβ̞lo le ˈð̞a soˈβ̞ɾinos]/ proverb

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53 characters

Language

Spanish

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a quien Dios no le da hijos, el diablo le da sobrinos is aSpanishproverb. It means: Cualquiera terminará teniendo que lidiar con el mismo tipo de problemas familiares o domésticos, incluso si decide no ser padre. Pronounced [a kjẽn̪ ˈd̪jos ˈno le ˈð̞a ˈixos | el̪ ˈd̪jaβ̞lo le ˈð̞a soˈβ̞ɾinos].

Key facts for a quien Dios no le da hijos, el diablo le da sobrinos
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Headworda quien Dios no le da hijos, el diablo le da sobrinos
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechProverb
IPA[a kjẽn̪ ˈd̪jos ˈno le ˈð̞a ˈixos | el̪ ˈd̪jaβ̞lo le ˈð̞a soˈβ̞ɾinos]
Letters53
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

a quien Dios no le da hijos, el diablo le da sobrinos 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 a quien Dios no le da hijos, el diablo le da sobrinos is 53 letters long, classified as aproverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [a kjẽn̪ ˈd̪jos ˈno le ˈð̞a ˈixos | el̪ ˈd̪jaβ̞lo le ˈð̞a soˈβ̞ɾinos]. 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: "Cualquiera terminará teniendo que lidiar con el mismo tipo de problemas familiares o domésticos, incluso si decide no ser padre.".

No misspelling variants are generated for a quien Dios no le da hijos, el diablo le da sobrinos 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 a quien Dios no le da hijos, el diablo le da sobrinos, spelled A- -Q-U-I-E-N- -D-I-O-S- -N-O- -L-E- -D-A- -H-I-J-O-S-,- -E-L- -D-I-A-B-L-O- -L-E- -D-A- -S-O-B-R-I-N-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Cualquiera terminará teniendo que lidiar con el mismo tipo de problemas familiares o domésticos, incluso si decide no ser padre.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "a quien Dios no le da hijos, el diablo le da sobrinos"?
"a quien Dios no le da hijos, el diablo le da sobrinos" is spelled A- -Q-U-I-E-N- -D-I-O-S- -N-O- -L-E- -D-A- -H-I-J-O-S-,- -E-L- -D-I-A-B-L-O- -L-E- -D-A- -S-O-B-R-I-N-O-S. The IPA pronunciation is [a kjẽn̪ ˈd̪jos ˈno le ˈð̞a ˈixos | el̪ ˈd̪jaβ̞lo le ˈð̞a soˈβ̞ɾinos].
What does "a quien Dios no le da hijos, el diablo le da sobrinos" mean?
As a proverb, "a quien Dios no le da hijos, el diablo le da sobrinos" means: Cualquiera terminará teniendo que lidiar con el mismo tipo de problemas familiares o domésticos, incluso si decide no ser padre.
How do you pronounce "a quien Dios no le da hijos, el diablo le da sobrinos"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "a quien Dios no le da hijos, el diablo le da sobrinos" is [a kjẽn̪ ˈd̪jos ˈno le ˈð̞a ˈixos | el̪ ˈd̪jaβ̞lo le ˈð̞a soˈβ̞ɾinos]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "a quien Dios no le da hijos, el diablo le da sobrinos" 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.