fuera de lugar
Letters
14 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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fuera de lugar is aSpanishphrase. It means: Inapropiado, inoportuno, especialmente si se trata de algo descortés u ofensivo. Pronounced [ˈfweɾa ð̞e luˈɣ̞aɾ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fuera de lugar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈfweɾa ð̞e luˈɣ̞aɾ] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for fuera de lugar is 14 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfweɾa ð̞e luˈɣ̞aɾ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for fuera de lugar 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 fuera de lugar, spelled F-U-E-R-A- -D-E- -L-U-G-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Inapropiado, inoportuno, especialmente si se trata de algo descortés u ofensivo.
- 2Dicho del habla: Argumento desacertado o no correspondiente al contexto de una discusión o conversación.
- 3Se dice cuando un jugador está más cerca de la línea opuesta que el balón.
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