dejarse las pestañas
The verdict
“dejarse las pestañas” 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
- 20
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Estudiar mucho, estudiar con mucho empeño.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dejarse las pestañas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [d̪eˈxaɾse las pesˈt̪aɲas] |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dejarse las pestañas” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for dejarse las pestañas is 20 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪eˈxaɾse las pesˈt̪aɲas]. 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 dejarse las pestañas 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 las pestañas, spelled D-E-J-A-R-S-E- -L-A-S- -P-E-S-T-A-Ñ-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Estudiar mucho, estudiar con mucho empeño.
- 2Esforzar mucho la vista.
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 las pestañas”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is D-E-J-A-R-S-E- -L-A-S- -P-E-S-T-A-Ñ-A-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [d̪eˈxaɾse las pesˈt̪aɲas] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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