estar como una regadera
The verdict
“estar como una regadera” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 23
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Comportarse de forma irracional.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | estar como una regadera |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [esˈt̪aɾ ˈkomo ˈuna reɣ̞aˈð̞eɾa] |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “estar como una regadera” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for estar como una regadera is 23 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [esˈt̪aɾ ˈkomo ˈuna reɣ̞aˈð̞eɾa]. 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: "Comportarse de forma irracional.".
No misspelling variants are generated for estar como una regadera 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 estar como una regadera, spelled E-S-T-A-R- -C-O-M-O- -U-N-A- -R-E-G-A-D-E-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Comportarse de forma irracional.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “estar como una regadera”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is E-S-T-A-R- -C-O-M-O- -U-N-A- -R-E-G-A-D-E-R-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [esˈt̪aɾ ˈkomo ˈuna reɣ̞aˈð̞eɾa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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