caer la ficha
The verdict
“caer la ficha” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Dar cuenta de un misterio, enigma o asunto que es muy confuso.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caer la ficha |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [kaˈeɾ la ˈfit͡ʃa] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “caer la ficha” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for caer la ficha is 13 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈeɾ la ˈfit͡ʃa]. 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: "Dar cuenta de un misterio, enigma o asunto que es muy confuso.".
No misspelling variants are generated for caer la ficha 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 caer la ficha, spelled C-A-E-R- -L-A- -F-I-C-H-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dar cuenta de un misterio, enigma o asunto que es muy confuso.
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Using “caer la ficha”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-E-R- -L-A- -F-I-C-H-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kaˈeɾ la ˈfit͡ʃa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Nearby Spanish words
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