el diable quan és vell, sap més per experiència que per consell

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for el diable quan és vell, sap més per experiència que per consell is 63 letters long, classified as a proverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈel ðiˈab.blə ˈkwan ˈez ˈbeʎ | ˈsab ˈmes ˈpe əks.pə.ɾiˈɛn.si.ə ˈke ˈpe kunˈseʎ]. 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 quan és vell, sap més per experiència que per consell 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 quan és vell, sap més per experiència que per consell, spelled E-L- -D-I-A-B-L-E- -Q-U-A-N- -É-S- -V-E-L-L-,- -S-A-P- -M-É-S- -P-E-R- -E-X-P-E-R-I-È-N-C-I-A- -Q-U-E- -P-E-R- -C-O-N-S-E-L-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.