hablar entre dientes

/[aˈβ̞laɾ ˈẽn̪t̪ɾe ˈð̞jẽn̪t̪es]/ phrase

Letters

20 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

hablar entre dientes is aSpanishphrase. It means: Decir las cosas como son, especialmente cuando éstas no se muestran favorables. Pronounced [aˈβ̞laɾ ˈẽn̪t̪ɾe ˈð̞jẽn̪t̪es].

Key facts for hablar entre dientes
PropertyValue
Headwordhablar entre dientes
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[aˈβ̞laɾ ˈẽn̪t̪ɾe ˈð̞jẽn̪t̪es]
Letters20
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

hablar entre dientes 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 entre dientes is 20 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈβ̞laɾ ˈẽn̪t̪ɾe ˈð̞jẽn̪t̪es]. 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: "Decir las cosas como son, especialmente cuando éstas no se muestran favorables.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for hablar entre dientes 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 entre dientes, spelled H-A-B-L-A-R- -E-N-T-R-E- -D-I-E-N-T-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Decir las cosas como son, especialmente cuando éstas no se muestran favorables.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hablar entre dientes"?
"hablar entre dientes" is spelled H-A-B-L-A-R- -E-N-T-R-E- -D-I-E-N-T-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is [aˈβ̞laɾ ˈẽn̪t̪ɾe ˈð̞jẽn̪t̪es].
What does "hablar entre dientes" mean?
As a phrase, "hablar entre dientes" means: Decir las cosas como son, especialmente cuando éstas no se muestran favorables.
How do you pronounce "hablar entre dientes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hablar entre dientes" is [aˈβ̞laɾ ˈẽn̪t̪ɾe ˈð̞jẽn̪t̪es]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "hablar entre dientes" 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.