dar pábulo
Letters
10 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
dar pábulo is aSpanishphrase. It means: Dar incentivo a un afecto, inclinación o vicio. Pronounced [ˈd̪aɾ ˈpaβ̞ulo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dar pábulo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈd̪aɾ ˈpaβ̞ulo] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for dar pábulo is 10 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈd̪aɾ ˈpaβ̞ulo]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for dar pábulo 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 pábulo, spelled D-A-R- -P-Á-B-U-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dar incentivo a un afecto, inclinación o vicio.
- 2Echar leña al fuego; poner medios para acrecentar un mal.
- 3Dar razón o motivo para algo.
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