hablar como un perico

/[aˈβ̞laɾ ˈkomo ũm peˈɾiko]/ phrase

Letters

21 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

hablar como un perico is aSpanishphrase. It means: Hablar excesivamente y sin mucho sentido. Pronounced [aˈβ̞laɾ ˈkomo ũm peˈɾiko].

Key facts for hablar como un perico
PropertyValue
Headwordhablar como un perico
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[aˈβ̞laɾ ˈkomo ũm peˈɾiko]
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

hablar como un perico 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 perico is 21 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈβ̞laɾ ˈkomo ũm peˈɾiko]. 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 excesivamente y sin mucho sentido.".

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

Definition

  1. 1
    Hablar excesivamente y sin mucho sentido.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hablar como un perico"?
"hablar como un perico" is spelled H-A-B-L-A-R- -C-O-M-O- -U-N- -P-E-R-I-C-O. The IPA pronunciation is [aˈβ̞laɾ ˈkomo ũm peˈɾiko].
What does "hablar como un perico" mean?
As a phrase, "hablar como un perico" means: Hablar excesivamente y sin mucho sentido.
How do you pronounce "hablar como un perico"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hablar como un perico" is [aˈβ̞laɾ ˈkomo ũm peˈɾiko]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "hablar como un perico" 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.