dar en cara

/[ˈd̪aɾ ẽŋ ˈkaɾa]/ phrase

Letters

11 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

dar en cara is aSpanishphrase. It means: Reprender, reconvenir, reprochar o presionar a alguien recordándole algo censurable que ha hecho o un beneficio concedido en el pasado. Pronounced [ˈd̪aɾ ẽŋ ˈkaɾa].

Key facts for dar en cara
PropertyValue
Headworddar en cara
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈd̪aɾ ẽŋ ˈkaɾa]
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

dar en cara 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 en cara is 11 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈd̪aɾ ẽŋ ˈkaɾa]. 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: "Reprender, reconvenir, reprochar o presionar a alguien recordándole algo censurable que ha hecho o un beneficio concedido en el pasado.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for dar en cara 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 en cara, spelled D-A-R- -E-N- -C-A-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Reprender, reconvenir, reprochar o presionar a alguien recordándole algo censurable que ha hecho o un beneficio concedido en el pasado.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dar en cara"?
"dar en cara" is spelled D-A-R- -E-N- -C-A-R-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈd̪aɾ ẽŋ ˈkaɾa].
What does "dar en cara" mean?
As a phrase, "dar en cara" means: Reprender, reconvenir, reprochar o presionar a alguien recordándole algo censurable que ha hecho o un beneficio concedido en el pasado.
How do you pronounce "dar en cara"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dar en cara" is [ˈd̪aɾ ẽŋ ˈkaɾa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dar en cara" 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.