el que juega con candela tarde o temprano se quema

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for el que juega con candela tarde o temprano se quema is 50 letters long, classified as a proverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [el ke ˈxweɣ̞a kõŋ kãn̪ˈd̪ela ˈt̪aɾð̞e o t̪ẽmˈpɾano se ˈkema]. 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: "Sentencia para que las personas no cometan actos temerarios ni imprudencias graves que puedan causar desgracias o calamidades o poner en riesgo su vida o su integridad física.".

No misspelling variants are generated for el que juega con candela tarde o temprano se quema 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 que juega con candela tarde o temprano se quema, spelled E-L- -Q-U-E- -J-U-E-G-A- -C-O-N- -C-A-N-D-E-L-A- -T-A-R-D-E- -O- -T-E-M-P-R-A-N-O- -S-E- -Q-U-E-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.