el camino al infierno está empedrado de buenas intenciones

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for el camino al infierno está empedrado de buenas intenciones is 58 letters long, classified as a proverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [el kaˈmino al ĩɱˈfjeɾno esˈt̪a ẽmpeˈð̞ɾað̞o ð̞e ˈβ̞wenas ĩn̪t̪ẽnˈsjones]. 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: "De nada sirve justificar con "buenas intenciones" a los malos resultados.".

No misspelling variants are generated for el camino al infierno está empedrado de buenas intenciones 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 el camino al infierno está empedrado de buenas intenciones, spelled E-L- -C-A-M-I-N-O- -A-L- -I-N-F-I-E-R-N-O- -E-S-T-Á- -E-M-P-E-D-R-A-D-O- -D-E- -B-U-E-N-A-S- -I-N-T-E-N-C-I-O-N-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.