espalda mojada

/[esˈpal̪d̪a moˈxað̞a]/ phrase

Letters

14 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

espalda mojada is aSpanishphrase. It means: Inmigrante mexicano que cruzó la frontera ilegalmente para radicarse en los Estados Unidos. Pronounced [esˈpal̪d̪a moˈxað̞a].

Key facts for espalda mojada
PropertyValue
Headwordespalda mojada
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[esˈpal̪d̪a moˈxað̞a]
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for espalda mojada is 14 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [esˈpal̪d̪a moˈxað̞a]. 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: "Inmigrante mexicano que cruzó la frontera ilegalmente para radicarse en los Estados Unidos.".

No misspelling variants are generated for espalda mojada 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 espalda mojada, spelled E-S-P-A-L-D-A- -M-O-J-A-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Inmigrante mexicano que cruzó la frontera ilegalmente para radicarse en los Estados Unidos.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "espalda mojada"?
"espalda mojada" is spelled E-S-P-A-L-D-A- -M-O-J-A-D-A. The IPA pronunciation is [esˈpal̪d̪a moˈxað̞a].
What does "espalda mojada" mean?
As a phrase, "espalda mojada" means: Inmigrante mexicano que cruzó la frontera ilegalmente para radicarse en los Estados Unidos.
How do you pronounce "espalda mojada"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "espalda mojada" is [esˈpal̪d̪a moˈxað̞a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "espalda mojada" come from?
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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.