cantar en la mano
The verdict
“cantar en la mano” 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
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Ser sagaz y astuto.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cantar en la mano |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [kãn̪ˈt̪aɾ ẽn la ˈmano] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cantar en la mano” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cantar en la mano is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kãn̪ˈt̪aɾ ẽn la ˈmano]. 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: "Ser sagaz y astuto.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cantar en la mano 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 cantar en la mano, spelled C-A-N-T-A-R- -E-N- -L-A- -M-A-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ser sagaz y astuto.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “cantar en la mano”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-N-T-A-R- -E-N- -L-A- -M-A-N-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kãn̪ˈt̪aɾ ẽn la ˈmano] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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