echar las petacas

/[eˈt͡ʃaɾ las peˈt̪akas]/ phrase

Letters

17 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

echar las petacas is aSpanishphrase. It means: Descuidar algo, y en particular la responsabilidad sobre los propios asuntos o negocios. Pronounced [eˈt͡ʃaɾ las peˈt̪akas].

Key facts for echar las petacas
PropertyValue
Headwordechar las petacas
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[eˈt͡ʃaɾ las peˈt̪akas]
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for echar las petacas is 17 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eˈt͡ʃaɾ las peˈt̪akas]. 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: "Descuidar algo, y en particular la responsabilidad sobre los propios asuntos o negocios.".

No misspelling variants are generated for echar las petacas 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 las petacas, spelled E-C-H-A-R- -L-A-S- -P-E-T-A-C-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Descuidar algo, y en particular la responsabilidad sobre los propios asuntos o negocios.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "echar las petacas"?
"echar las petacas" is spelled E-C-H-A-R- -L-A-S- -P-E-T-A-C-A-S. The IPA pronunciation is [eˈt͡ʃaɾ las peˈt̪akas].
What does "echar las petacas" mean?
As a phrase, "echar las petacas" means: Descuidar algo, y en particular la responsabilidad sobre los propios asuntos o negocios.
How do you pronounce "echar las petacas"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "echar las petacas" is [eˈt͡ʃaɾ las peˈt̪akas]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "echar las petacas" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.