hablar por las espaldas

/[aˈβ̞laɾ poɾ las esˈpal̪d̪as]/ phrase

Letters

23 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

hablar por las espaldas is aSpanishphrase. It means: Criticar a alguien sin que esté presente. Pronounced [aˈβ̞laɾ poɾ las esˈpal̪d̪as].

Key facts for hablar por las espaldas
PropertyValue
Headwordhablar por las espaldas
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[aˈβ̞laɾ poɾ las esˈpal̪d̪as]
Letters23
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

hablar por las espaldas 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 las espaldas is 23 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈβ̞laɾ poɾ las esˈpal̪d̪as]. 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: "Criticar a alguien sin que esté presente.".

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

Definition

  1. 1
    Criticar a alguien sin que esté presente.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hablar por las espaldas"?
"hablar por las espaldas" is spelled H-A-B-L-A-R- -P-O-R- -L-A-S- -E-S-P-A-L-D-A-S. The IPA pronunciation is [aˈβ̞laɾ poɾ las esˈpal̪d̪as].
What does "hablar por las espaldas" mean?
As a phrase, "hablar por las espaldas" means: Criticar a alguien sin que esté presente.
How do you pronounce "hablar por las espaldas"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hablar por las espaldas" is [aˈβ̞laɾ poɾ las esˈpal̪d̪as]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "hablar por las espaldas" 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.