hablar como un loro

/[aˈβ̞laɾ ˈkomo ũn ˈloɾo]/ phrase

Letters

19 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

hablar como un loro is aSpanishphrase. It means: Hablar mucho y sin decir nada relevante. Pronounced [aˈβ̞laɾ ˈkomo ũn ˈloɾo].

Key facts for hablar como un loro
PropertyValue
Headwordhablar como un loro
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[aˈβ̞laɾ ˈkomo ũn ˈloɾo]
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

hablar como un loro is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for hablar como un loro is 19 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈβ̞laɾ ˈkomo ũn ˈloɾo]. 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: "Hablar mucho y sin decir nada relevante.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for hablar como un loro 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 hablar como un loro, spelled H-A-B-L-A-R- -C-O-M-O- -U-N- -L-O-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Hablar mucho y sin decir nada relevante.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hablar como un loro"?
"hablar como un loro" is spelled H-A-B-L-A-R- -C-O-M-O- -U-N- -L-O-R-O. The IPA pronunciation is [aˈβ̞laɾ ˈkomo ũn ˈloɾo].
What does "hablar como un loro" mean?
As a phrase, "hablar como un loro" means: Hablar mucho y sin decir nada relevante.
How do you pronounce "hablar como un loro"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hablar como un loro" is [aˈβ̞laɾ ˈkomo ũn ˈloɾo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "hablar como un loro" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.