echarse a las petacas
Letters
21 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
echarse a las petacas is aSpanishphrase. It means: Descuidar algo, y en particular la responsabilidad sobre los propios asuntos o negocios. Pronounced [eˈt͡ʃaɾse a las peˈt̪akas].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | echarse a las petacas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [eˈt͡ʃaɾse a las peˈt̪akas] |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for echarse a las petacas is 21 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eˈt͡ʃaɾse a 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 echarse a 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 echarse a las petacas, spelled E-C-H-A-R-S-E- -A- -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
- 1Descuidar algo, y en particular la responsabilidad sobre los propios asuntos o negocios.
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