echar el ojo
Letters
12 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
echar el ojo is aSpanishphrase. It means: Elegir mentalmente una cosa entre otras. Pronounced [eˈt͡ʃaɾ el ˈoxo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | echar el ojo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [eˈt͡ʃaɾ el ˈoxo] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for echar el ojo is 12 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eˈt͡ʃaɾ el ˈoxo]. 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 echar el ojo 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 echar el ojo, spelled E-C-H-A-R- -E-L- -O-J-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Elegir mentalmente una cosa entre otras.
- 2Mirarla con atención a alguien o algo, mostrando deseo de ella.
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