cantar la tabla
[kãn̪ˈt̪aɾ la ˈt̪aβ̞la]
The verdict
“cantar la tabla” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Reconvenir severamente a una persona y enumerarle (manifestar en una retahíla) todos sus errores o actos que han ofendido al hablante.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cantar la tabla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [kãn̪ˈt̪aɾ la ˈt̪aβ̞la] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cantar la tabla” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cantar la tabla is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kãn̪ˈt̪aɾ la ˈt̪aβ̞la]. 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: "Reconvenir severamente a una persona y enumerarle (manifestar en una retahíla) todos sus errores o actos que han ofendido al hablante.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cantar la tabla 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 la tabla, spelled C-A-N-T-A-R- -L-A- -T-A-B-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Reconvenir severamente a una persona y enumerarle (manifestar en una retahíla) todos sus errores o actos que han ofendido al hablante.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-N-T-A-R- -L-A- -T-A-B-L-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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