fumar como chino en quiebra
[fuˈmaɾ ˈkomo ˈt͡ʃino ẽŋ ˈkjeβ̞ɾa]
The verdict
“fumar como chino en quiebra” 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
- 27
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Fumar mucho.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fumar como chino en quiebra |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [fuˈmaɾ ˈkomo ˈt͡ʃino ẽŋ ˈkjeβ̞ɾa] |
| Letters | 27 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fumar como chino en quiebra” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for fumar como chino en quiebra is 27 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fuˈmaɾ ˈkomo ˈt͡ʃino ẽŋ ˈkjeβ̞ɾa]. 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: "Fumar mucho.".
No misspelling variants are generated for fumar como chino en quiebra 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 fumar como chino en quiebra, spelled F-U-M-A-R- -C-O-M-O- -C-H-I-N-O- -E-N- -Q-U-I-E-B-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fumar mucho.
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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- The one correct Spanish spelling is F-U-M-A-R- -C-O-M-O- -C-H-I-N-O- -E-N- -Q-U-I-E-B-R-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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