entre dientes

/[ˈẽn̪t̪ɾe ˈð̞jẽn̪t̪es]/ phrase

Letters

13 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

entre dientes is aSpanishphrase. It means: Pronunciar de un modo poco audible o confuso, que casi no se entiende o escucha. Pronounced [ˈẽn̪t̪ɾe ˈð̞jẽn̪t̪es].

Key facts for entre dientes
PropertyValue
Headwordentre dientes
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈẽn̪t̪ɾe ˈð̞jẽn̪t̪es]
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

entre dientes is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for entre dientes is 13 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈẽn̪t̪ɾe ˈð̞jẽn̪t̪es]. 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: "Pronunciar de un modo poco audible o confuso, que casi no se entiende o escucha.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for entre dientes in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 entre dientes, spelled E-N-T-R-E- -D-I-E-N-T-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pronunciar de un modo poco audible o confuso, que casi no se entiende o escucha.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "entre dientes"?
"entre dientes" is spelled E-N-T-R-E- -D-I-E-N-T-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈẽn̪t̪ɾe ˈð̞jẽn̪t̪es].
What does "entre dientes" mean?
As a phrase, "entre dientes" means: Pronunciar de un modo poco audible o confuso, que casi no se entiende o escucha.
How do you pronounce "entre dientes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "entre dientes" is [ˈẽn̪t̪ɾe ˈð̞jẽn̪t̪es]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "entre dientes" come from?
"entre dientes" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.