hablar como una cotorra

/[aˈβ̞laɾ ˈkomo ˈuna koˈt̪ora]/ phrase

Letters

23 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

hablar como una cotorra is aSpanishphrase. It means: Hablar mucho y sin sentido. Pronounced [aˈβ̞laɾ ˈkomo ˈuna koˈt̪ora].

Key facts for hablar como una cotorra
PropertyValue
Headwordhablar como una cotorra
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[aˈβ̞laɾ ˈkomo ˈuna koˈt̪ora]
Letters23
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

hablar como una cotorra 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 una cotorra is 23 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈβ̞laɾ ˈkomo ˈuna koˈt̪ora]. 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 sentido.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for hablar como una cotorra 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 una cotorra, spelled H-A-B-L-A-R- -C-O-M-O- -U-N-A- -C-O-T-O-R-R-A, 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 sentido.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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