buscarle la quinta pata al gato

/[busˈkaɾle la ˈkĩn̪t̪a ˈpat̪a al ˈɣ̞at̪o]/ phrase

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Language

Spanish

word origin

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buscarle la quinta pata al gato is aSpanishphrase. It means: Buscar todos los defectos posibles a algo, incluso si no los hay. Pronounced [busˈkaɾle la ˈkĩn̪t̪a ˈpat̪a al ˈɣ̞at̪o].

Key facts for buscarle la quinta pata al gato
PropertyValue
Headwordbuscarle la quinta pata al gato
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[busˈkaɾle la ˈkĩn̪t̪a ˈpat̪a al ˈɣ̞at̪o]
Letters31
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

buscarle la quinta pata al gato 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 buscarle la quinta pata al gato is 31 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [busˈkaɾle la ˈkĩn̪t̪a ˈpat̪a al ˈɣ̞at̪o]. 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: "Buscar todos los defectos posibles a algo, incluso si no los hay.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for buscarle la quinta pata al gato 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 buscarle la quinta pata al gato, spelled B-U-S-C-A-R-L-E- -L-A- -Q-U-I-N-T-A- -P-A-T-A- -A-L- -G-A-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Buscar todos los defectos posibles a algo, incluso si no los hay.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "buscarle la quinta pata al gato"?
"buscarle la quinta pata al gato" is spelled B-U-S-C-A-R-L-E- -L-A- -Q-U-I-N-T-A- -P-A-T-A- -A-L- -G-A-T-O. The IPA pronunciation is [busˈkaɾle la ˈkĩn̪t̪a ˈpat̪a al ˈɣ̞at̪o].
What does "buscarle la quinta pata al gato" mean?
As a phrase, "buscarle la quinta pata al gato" means: Buscar todos los defectos posibles a algo, incluso si no los hay.
How do you pronounce "buscarle la quinta pata al gato"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "buscarle la quinta pata al gato" is [busˈkaɾle la ˈkĩn̪t̪a ˈpat̪a al ˈɣ̞at̪o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.