dar la lata

/[ˈd̪aɾ la ˈlat̪a]/ phrase

Letters

11 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

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dar la lata is aSpanishphrase. It means: Cansar a alguien; molestar con algo monótono o aburrido. Pronounced [ˈd̪aɾ la ˈlat̪a].

Key facts for dar la lata
PropertyValue
Headworddar la lata
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈd̪aɾ la ˈlat̪a]
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

dar la lata 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 la lata is 11 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈd̪aɾ la ˈlat̪a]. 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: "Cansar a alguien; molestar con algo monótono o aburrido.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for dar la lata 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 la lata, spelled D-A-R- -L-A- -L-A-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cansar a alguien; molestar con algo monótono o aburrido.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dar la lata"?
"dar la lata" is spelled D-A-R- -L-A- -L-A-T-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈd̪aɾ la ˈlat̪a].
What does "dar la lata" mean?
As a phrase, "dar la lata" means: Cansar a alguien; molestar con algo monótono o aburrido.
How do you pronounce "dar la lata"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dar la lata" is [ˈd̪aɾ la ˈlat̪a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dar la lata" 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.