gastar pólvora en chimangos

/[gasˈt̪aɾ ˈpolβ̞oɾa ẽnʲ t͡ʃiˈmãŋgos]/ phrase

Letters

27 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

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tracked variants

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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].

Key facts for gastar pólvora en chimangos
PropertyValue
Headwordgastar pólvora en chimangos
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[gasˈt̪aɾ ˈpolβ̞oɾa ẽnʲ t͡ʃiˈmãŋgos]
Letters27
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

gastar pólvora en chimangos 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 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

  1. 1
    Desperdiciar tiempo o dinero en actividades o cosas insignificantes, inútiles o desventajosas.
  2. 2
    Desperdiciar tiempo inútilmente en alguien obstinado o que simplemente no vale la pena el esfuerzo en tratar de educarlo.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gastar pólvora en chimangos"?
"gastar pólvora en chimangos" is 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. The IPA pronunciation is [gasˈt̪aɾ ˈpolβ̞oɾa ẽnʲ t͡ʃiˈmãŋgos].
What does "gastar pólvora en chimangos" mean?
As a phrase, "gastar pólvora en chimangos" means: Desperdiciar tiempo o dinero en actividades o cosas insignificantes, inútiles o desventajosas.
How do you pronounce "gastar pólvora en chimangos"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gastar pólvora en chimangos" is [gasˈt̪aɾ ˈpolβ̞oɾa ẽnʲ t͡ʃiˈmãŋgos]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gastar pólvora en chimangos" 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.