cavar su propia tumba
The verdict
“cavar su propia tumba” 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
- 21
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Comportarse de una manera que es muy probable que resulte en un gran daño para uno mismo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cavar su propia tumba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [kaˈβ̞aɾ su ˈpɾopja ˈt̪ũmba] |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cavar su propia tumba” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cavar su propia tumba is 21 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈβ̞aɾ su ˈpɾopja ˈt̪ũmba]. 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: "Comportarse de una manera que es muy probable que resulte en un gran daño para uno mismo.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cavar su propia tumba 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 cavar su propia tumba, spelled C-A-V-A-R- -S-U- -P-R-O-P-I-A- -T-U-M-B-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Comportarse de una manera que es muy probable que resulte en un gran daño para uno mismo.
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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-V-A-R- -S-U- -P-R-O-P-I-A- -T-U-M-B-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kaˈβ̞aɾ su ˈpɾopja ˈt̪ũmba] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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