echar un cable

/[eˈt͡ʃaɾ ũŋ ˈkaβ̞le]/ phrase

Letters

14 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

echar un cable is aSpanishphrase. It means: Ayudar a sacar a alguien de una mala situación, de un apuro. Pronounced [eˈt͡ʃaɾ ũŋ ˈkaβ̞le].

Key facts for echar un cable
PropertyValue
Headwordechar un cable
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[eˈt͡ʃaɾ ũŋ ˈkaβ̞le]
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

echar un cable 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 un cable is 14 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eˈt͡ʃaɾ ũŋ ˈkaβ̞le]. 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: "Ayudar a sacar a alguien de una mala situación, de un apuro.".

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

Definition

  1. 1
    Ayudar a sacar a alguien de una mala situación, de un apuro.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "echar un cable"?
"echar un cable" is spelled E-C-H-A-R- -U-N- -C-A-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is [eˈt͡ʃaɾ ũŋ ˈkaβ̞le].
What does "echar un cable" mean?
As a phrase, "echar un cable" means: Ayudar a sacar a alguien de una mala situación, de un apuro.
How do you pronounce "echar un cable"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "echar un cable" is [eˈt͡ʃaɾ ũŋ ˈkaβ̞le]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "echar un cable" come from?
"echar un cable" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.