como anillo al dedo
The verdict
“como anillo al dedo” 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
- 19
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Muy bien, en momento oportuno, a la medida, adecuadamente.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | como anillo al dedo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈkomo aˈniʝo al̪ ˈd̪eð̞o] |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “como anillo al dedo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for como anillo al dedo is 19 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkomo aˈniʝo al̪ ˈd̪eð̞o]. 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: "Muy bien, en momento oportuno, a la medida, adecuadamente.".
No misspelling variants are generated for como anillo al dedo 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 como anillo al dedo, spelled C-O-M-O- -A-N-I-L-L-O- -A-L- -D-E-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Muy bien, en momento oportuno, a la medida, adecuadamente.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-O-M-O- -A-N-I-L-L-O- -A-L- -D-E-D-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈkomo aˈniʝo al̪ ˈd̪eð̞o] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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