hablar por la mano

/[aˈβ̞laɾ poɾ la ˈmano]/ phrase

Letters

18 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

hablar por la mano is aSpanishphrase. It means: Expresarse por señas de la mano representando las letras con gestos de los dedos. Pronounced [aˈβ̞laɾ poɾ la ˈmano].

Key facts for hablar por la mano
PropertyValue
Headwordhablar por la mano
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[aˈβ̞laɾ poɾ la ˈmano]
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

hablar por la mano 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 por la mano is 18 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈβ̞laɾ poɾ la ˈmano]. 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: "Expresarse por señas de la mano representando las letras con gestos de los dedos.".

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

Definition

  1. 1
    Expresarse por señas de la mano representando las letras con gestos de los dedos.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hablar por la mano"?
"hablar por la mano" is spelled H-A-B-L-A-R- -P-O-R- -L-A- -M-A-N-O. The IPA pronunciation is [aˈβ̞laɾ poɾ la ˈmano].
What does "hablar por la mano" mean?
As a phrase, "hablar por la mano" means: Expresarse por señas de la mano representando las letras con gestos de los dedos.
How do you pronounce "hablar por la mano"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hablar por la mano" is [aˈβ̞laɾ poɾ la ˈmano]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "hablar por la mano" 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.