el hombre es la medida de todas las cosas
The verdict
“el hombre es la medida de todas las cosas” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a proverb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 41
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Lo verdadero lo es en tanto concuerde con lo adecuado o esperable desde las expectativas de la especie humana.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | el hombre es la medida de todas las cosas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proverb |
| IPA | [el ˈõmbɾe ˈes la meˈð̞ið̞a ð̞e ˈt̪oð̞as las ˈkosas] |
| Letters | 41 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “el hombre es la medida de todas las cosas” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for el hombre es la medida de todas las cosas is 41 letters long, classified as a proverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [el ˈõmbɾe ˈes la meˈð̞ið̞a ð̞e ˈt̪oð̞as las ˈkosas]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for el hombre es la medida de todas las cosas 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 hombre es la medida de todas las cosas, spelled E-L- -H-O-M-B-R-E- -E-S- -L-A- -M-E-D-I-D-A- -D-E- -T-O-D-A-S- -L-A-S- -C-O-S-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lo verdadero lo es en tanto concuerde con lo adecuado o esperable desde las expectativas de la especie humana.
- 2Lo verdadero lo es en tanto sea verdadero desde mi punto de vista.
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Using “el hombre es la medida de todas las cosas”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is E-L- -H-O-M-B-R-E- -E-S- -L-A- -M-E-D-I-D-A- -D-E- -T-O-D-A-S- -L-A-S- -C-O-S-A-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [el ˈõmbɾe ˈes la meˈð̞ið̞a ð̞e ˈt̪oð̞as las ˈkosas] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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