dar el brazo a torcer

/[ˈd̪aɾ el ˈβ̞ɾaso a t̪oɾˈseɾ]/ phrase

Letters

21 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

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similar word pairs

dar el brazo a torcer is aSpanishphrase. It means: Ceder frente a una opinión ajena. Pronounced [ˈd̪aɾ el ˈβ̞ɾaso a t̪oɾˈseɾ].

Key facts for dar el brazo a torcer
PropertyValue
Headworddar el brazo a torcer
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈd̪aɾ el ˈβ̞ɾaso a t̪oɾˈseɾ]
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

dar el brazo a torcer is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for dar el brazo a torcer is 21 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈd̪aɾ el ˈβ̞ɾaso a t̪oɾˈseɾ]. 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: "Ceder frente a una opinión ajena.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for dar el brazo a torcer in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 dar el brazo a torcer, spelled D-A-R- -E-L- -B-R-A-Z-O- -A- -T-O-R-C-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ceder frente a una opinión ajena.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dar el brazo a torcer"?
"dar el brazo a torcer" is spelled D-A-R- -E-L- -B-R-A-Z-O- -A- -T-O-R-C-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈd̪aɾ el ˈβ̞ɾaso a t̪oɾˈseɾ].
What does "dar el brazo a torcer" mean?
As a phrase, "dar el brazo a torcer" means: Ceder frente a una opinión ajena.
How do you pronounce "dar el brazo a torcer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dar el brazo a torcer" is [ˈd̪aɾ el ˈβ̞ɾaso a t̪oɾˈseɾ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dar el brazo a torcer" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.