cara de palo
[ˈkaɾa ð̞e ˈpalo]
The verdict
“cara de palo” 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
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Que dice o hace, sin inmutarse, cosas por las que debiera avergonzarse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cara de palo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈkaɾa ð̞e ˈpalo] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cara de palo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cara de palo is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkaɾa ð̞e ˈpalo]. 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: "Que dice o hace, sin inmutarse, cosas por las que debiera avergonzarse.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cara de palo 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 cara de palo, spelled C-A-R-A- -D-E- -P-A-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que dice o hace, sin inmutarse, cosas por las que debiera avergonzarse.
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 “cara de palo”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-R-A- -D-E- -P-A-L-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈkaɾa ð̞e ˈpalo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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