gastar pólvora en chimangos
Letters
27 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
gastar pólvora en chimangos is aSpanishphrase. It means: Desperdiciar tiempo o dinero en actividades o cosas insignificantes, inútiles o desventajosas. Pronounced [gasˈt̪aɾ ˈpolβ̞oɾa ẽnʲ t͡ʃiˈmãŋgos].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gastar pólvora en chimangos |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [gasˈt̪aɾ ˈpolβ̞oɾa ẽnʲ t͡ʃiˈmãŋgos] |
| Letters | 27 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for gastar pólvora en chimangos is 27 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [gasˈt̪aɾ ˈpolβ̞oɾa ẽnʲ t͡ʃiˈmãŋgos]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for gastar pólvora en chimangos 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 gastar pólvora en chimangos, spelled G-A-S-T-A-R- -P-Ó-L-V-O-R-A- -E-N- -C-H-I-M-A-N-G-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Desperdiciar tiempo o dinero en actividades o cosas insignificantes, inútiles o desventajosas.
- 2Desperdiciar tiempo inútilmente en alguien obstinado o que simplemente no vale la pena el esfuerzo en tratar de educarlo.
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