echar raíces

/[eˈt͡ʃaɾ raˈises]/ phrase

Letters

12 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

echar raíces is aSpanishphrase. It means: Fijarse, establecerse en un lugar. Pronounced [eˈt͡ʃaɾ raˈises].

Key facts for echar raíces
PropertyValue
Headwordechar raíces
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[eˈt͡ʃaɾ raˈises]
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

echar raíces 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 raíces is 12 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eˈt͡ʃaɾ raˈises]. 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 raíces 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 raíces, spelled E-C-H-A-R- -R-A-Í-C-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fijarse, establecerse en un lugar.
  2. 2
    Afirmarse o agarrarse una pasión.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "echar raíces"?
"echar raíces" is spelled E-C-H-A-R- -R-A-Í-C-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is [eˈt͡ʃaɾ raˈises].
What does "echar raíces" mean?
As a phrase, "echar raíces" means: Fijarse, establecerse en un lugar.
How do you pronounce "echar raíces"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "echar raíces" is [eˈt͡ʃaɾ raˈises]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "echar raíces" 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.