el que menos corre, vuela

/[el ke ˈmenos ˈkore | ˈβ̞wela]/ proverb

The verdict

“el que menos corre, vuela” 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
25
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Frase proverbial que da entender el disimulo con que obra alguno, afectando descuido o indiferencia al mismo tiempo que solicita las cosas con más eficacia.

Key facts for el que menos corre, vuela
PropertyValue
Headwordel que menos corre, vuela
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechProverb
IPA[el ke ˈmenos ˈkore | ˈβ̞wela]
Letters25
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “el que menos corre, vuela” sits in Spanish frequency

el que menos corre, vuela falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Spanish words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for el que menos corre, vuela is 25 letters long, classified as a proverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [el ke ˈmenos ˈkore | ˈβ̞wela]. 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: "Frase proverbial que da entender el disimulo con que obra alguno, afectando descuido o indiferencia al mismo tiempo que solicita las cosas con más eficacia.".

No misspelling variants are generated for el que menos corre, vuela 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 menos corre, vuela, spelled E-L- -Q-U-E- -M-E-N-O-S- -C-O-R-R-E-,- -V-U-E-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Frase proverbial que da entender el disimulo con que obra alguno, afectando descuido o indiferencia al mismo tiempo que solicita las cosas con más eficacia.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "el que menos corre, vuela"?
"el que menos corre, vuela" is spelled E-L- -Q-U-E- -M-E-N-O-S- -C-O-R-R-E-,- -V-U-E-L-A. The IPA pronunciation is [el ke ˈmenos ˈkore | ˈβ̞wela].
What does "el que menos corre, vuela" mean?
As a proverb, "el que menos corre, vuela" means: Frase proverbial que da entender el disimulo con que obra alguno, afectando descuido o indiferencia al mismo tiempo que solicita las cosas con más eficacia.
How do you pronounce "el que menos corre, vuela"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "el que menos corre, vuela" is [el ke ˈmenos ˈkore | ˈβ̞wela]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “el que menos corre, vuela”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Spanish spelling is E-L- -Q-U-E- -M-E-N-O-S- -C-O-R-R-E-,- -V-U-E-L-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [el ke ˈmenos ˈkore | ˈβ̞wela] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.