caer pesado
The verdict
“caer pesado” 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
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Dicho de la comida: no poder digerirse correctamente.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caer pesado |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [kaˈeɾ peˈsað̞o] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “caer pesado” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for caer pesado is 11 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈeɾ peˈsað̞o]. 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: "Dicho de la comida: no poder digerirse correctamente.".
No misspelling variants are generated for caer pesado 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 pesado, spelled C-A-E-R- -P-E-S-A-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dicho de la comida: no poder digerirse correctamente.
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Using “caer pesado”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-E-R- -P-E-S-A-D-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kaˈeɾ peˈsað̞o] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Nearby Spanish words
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