gastar pólvora en gallinazos

/[gasˈt̪aɾ ˈpolβ̞oɾa ẽŋ gaʝiˈnasos]/ phrase

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28 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

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similar word pairs

gastar pólvora en gallinazos is aSpanishphrase. It means: Perder el tiempo en algo inútil, en algo sin provecho. Pronounced [gasˈt̪aɾ ˈpolβ̞oɾa ẽŋ gaʝiˈnasos].

Key facts for gastar pólvora en gallinazos
PropertyValue
Headwordgastar pólvora en gallinazos
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[gasˈt̪aɾ ˈpolβ̞oɾa ẽŋ gaʝiˈnasos]
Letters28
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

gastar pólvora en gallinazos 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 gallinazos is 28 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [gasˈt̪aɾ ˈpolβ̞oɾa ẽŋ gaʝiˈnasos]. 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: "Perder el tiempo en algo inútil, en algo sin provecho.".

No misspelling variants are generated for gastar pólvora en gallinazos 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 gallinazos, spelled G-A-S-T-A-R- -P-Ó-L-V-O-R-A- -E-N- -G-A-L-L-I-N-A-Z-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Perder el tiempo en algo inútil, en algo sin provecho.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gastar pólvora en gallinazos"?
"gastar pólvora en gallinazos" is spelled G-A-S-T-A-R- -P-Ó-L-V-O-R-A- -E-N- -G-A-L-L-I-N-A-Z-O-S. The IPA pronunciation is [gasˈt̪aɾ ˈpolβ̞oɾa ẽŋ gaʝiˈnasos].
What does "gastar pólvora en gallinazos" mean?
As a phrase, "gastar pólvora en gallinazos" means: Perder el tiempo en algo inútil, en algo sin provecho.
How do you pronounce "gastar pólvora en gallinazos"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gastar pólvora en gallinazos" is [gasˈt̪aɾ ˈpolβ̞oɾa ẽŋ gaʝiˈnasos]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gastar pólvora en gallinazos" 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.