el mundo es pequeño
The verdict
“el mundo es pequeño” 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
- 19
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Alude el hecho de que una persona que se acaba de conocer pudiera tener relación en común con algún amigo o persona conocida de hace mucho tiempo atrás.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | el mundo es pequeño |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proverb |
| IPA | [el ˈmũn̪d̪o ˈes peˈkeɲo] |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “el mundo es pequeño” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for el mundo es pequeño is 19 letters long, classified as a proverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [el ˈmũn̪d̪o ˈes peˈkeɲo]. 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: "Alude el hecho de que una persona que se acaba de conocer pudiera tener relación en común con algún amigo o persona conocida de hace mucho tiempo atrás.".
No misspelling variants are generated for el mundo es pequeño 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 mundo es pequeño, spelled E-L- -M-U-N-D-O- -E-S- -P-E-Q-U-E-Ñ-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Alude el hecho de que una persona que se acaba de conocer pudiera tener relación en común con algún amigo o persona conocida de hace mucho tiempo atrás.
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Using “el mundo es pequeño”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is E-L- -M-U-N-D-O- -E-S- -P-E-Q-U-E-Ñ-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [el ˈmũn̪d̪o ˈes peˈkeɲo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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