cuando una puerta se cierra, otra se abre
[ˈkwãn̪d̪o ˈuna ˈpweɾt̪a se ˈsjera | ˈot̪ɾa se ˈaβ̞ɾe]
The verdict
“cuando una puerta se cierra, otra se abre” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a proverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 41
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Que lo malo que sucede, también trae cosas buenas, o que se compensa con cosas buenas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuando una puerta se cierra, otra se abre |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proverb |
| IPA | [ˈkwãn̪d̪o ˈuna ˈpweɾt̪a se ˈsjera | ˈot̪ɾa se ˈaβ̞ɾe] |
| Letters | 41 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cuando una puerta se cierra, otra se abre” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cuando una puerta se cierra, otra se abre is 41 letters long, classified as a proverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkwãn̪d̪o ˈuna ˈpweɾt̪a se ˈsjera | ˈot̪ɾa se ˈaβ̞ɾe]. 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 lo malo que sucede, también trae cosas buenas, o que se compensa con cosas buenas.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cuando una puerta se cierra, otra se abre 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 cuando una puerta se cierra, otra se abre, spelled C-U-A-N-D-O- -U-N-A- -P-U-E-R-T-A- -S-E- -C-I-E-R-R-A-,- -O-T-R-A- -S-E- -A-B-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que lo malo que sucede, también trae cosas buenas, o que se compensa con cosas buenas.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-U-A-N-D-O- -U-N-A- -P-U-E-R-T-A- -S-E- -C-I-E-R-R-A-,- -O-T-R-A- -S-E- -A-B-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈkwãn̪d̪o ˈuna ˈpweɾt̪a se ˈsjera | ˈot̪ɾa se ˈaβ̞ɾe] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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