echarse a las petacas

/[eˈt͡ʃaɾse a las peˈt̪akas]/ phrase

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].

Key facts for echarse a las petacas
PropertyValue
Headwordecharse a las petacas
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[eˈt͡ʃaɾse a las peˈt̪akas]
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

echarse a 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 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

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

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "echarse a las petacas"?
"echarse a las petacas" is spelled E-C-H-A-R-S-E- -A- -L-A-S- -P-E-T-A-C-A-S. The IPA pronunciation is [eˈt͡ʃaɾse a las peˈt̪akas].
What does "echarse a las petacas" mean?
As a phrase, "echarse a las petacas" means: Descuidar algo, y en particular la responsabilidad sobre los propios asuntos o negocios.
How do you pronounce "echarse a las petacas"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "echarse a las petacas" is [eˈt͡ʃaɾse a las peˈt̪akas]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "echarse a 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.