echar en cara

/[eˈt͡ʃaɾ ẽŋ ˈkaɾa]/ phrase

Letters

13 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

echar en cara is aSpanishphrase. It means: Reprender, reconvenir, reprochar o presionar a alguien recordándole algo censurable o un beneficio concedido. Pronounced [eˈt͡ʃaɾ ẽŋ ˈkaɾa].

Key facts for echar en cara
PropertyValue
Headwordechar en cara
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[eˈt͡ʃaɾ ẽŋ ˈkaɾa]
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

echar en cara is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for echar en cara is 13 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eˈt͡ʃaɾ ẽŋ ˈkaɾa]. 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: "Reprender, reconvenir, reprochar o presionar a alguien recordándole algo censurable o un beneficio concedido.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for echar en cara 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 echar en cara, spelled E-C-H-A-R- -E-N- -C-A-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Reprender, reconvenir, reprochar o presionar a alguien recordándole algo censurable o un beneficio concedido.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "echar en cara"?
"echar en cara" is spelled E-C-H-A-R- -E-N- -C-A-R-A. The IPA pronunciation is [eˈt͡ʃaɾ ẽŋ ˈkaɾa].
What does "echar en cara" mean?
As a phrase, "echar en cara" means: Reprender, reconvenir, reprochar o presionar a alguien recordándole algo censurable o un beneficio concedido.
How do you pronounce "echar en cara"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "echar en cara" is [eˈt͡ʃaɾ ẽŋ ˈkaɾa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "echar en cara" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.