dejarse en el tintero
The verdict
“dejarse en el tintero” 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
- 21
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Olvidar decir o hacer algo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dejarse en el tintero |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [d̪eˈxaɾse ẽn el̪ t̪ĩn̪ˈt̪eɾo] |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dejarse en el tintero” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for dejarse en el tintero is 21 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪eˈxaɾse ẽn el̪ t̪ĩn̪ˈt̪eɾo]. 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: "Olvidar decir o hacer algo.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dejarse en el tintero 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 dejarse en el tintero, spelled D-E-J-A-R-S-E- -E-N- -E-L- -T-I-N-T-E-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Olvidar decir o hacer algo.
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 “dejarse en el tintero”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is D-E-J-A-R-S-E- -E-N- -E-L- -T-I-N-T-E-R-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [d̪eˈxaɾse ẽn el̪ t̪ĩn̪ˈt̪eɾo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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