dejar la escoba
The verdict
“dejar la escoba” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Causar un gran estropicio, desastre o desorden.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dejar la escoba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [d̪eˈxaɾ la esˈkoβ̞a] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dejar la escoba” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for dejar la escoba is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪eˈxaɾ la esˈkoβ̞a]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for dejar la escoba 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 dejar la escoba, spelled D-E-J-A-R- -L-A- -E-S-C-O-B-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Causar un gran estropicio, desastre o desorden.
- 2Por extensión, tener un éxito loco, causar conmoción.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “dejar la escoba”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is D-E-J-A-R- -L-A- -E-S-C-O-B-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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