el diable en sap més per vell que per diable

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for el diable en sap més per vell que per diable is 44 letters long, classified as a proverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈel ðiˈab.blə ˈen ˈsab ˈmes ˈpe ˈβeʎ ˈke ˈpe ðiˈab.blə]. 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: "Más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo.".

No misspelling variants are generated for el diable en sap més per vell que per diable 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 diable en sap més per vell que per diable, spelled E-L- -D-I-A-B-L-E- -E-N- -S-A-P- -M-É-S- -P-E-R- -V-E-L-L- -Q-U-E- -P-E-R- -D-I-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.