hablar por los codos

/[aˈβ̞laɾ poɾ los ˈkoð̞os]/ phrase

Letters

20 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

hablar por los codos is aSpanishphrase. It means: Hablar mucho y sin decir nada que tenga relevancia. Pronounced [aˈβ̞laɾ poɾ los ˈkoð̞os].

Key facts for hablar por los codos
PropertyValue
Headwordhablar por los codos
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[aˈβ̞laɾ poɾ los ˈkoð̞os]
Letters20
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

hablar por los codos 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 los codos is 20 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈβ̞laɾ poɾ los ˈkoð̞os]. 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 decir nada que tenga relevancia.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for hablar por los codos 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 los codos, spelled H-A-B-L-A-R- -P-O-R- -L-O-S- -C-O-D-O-S, 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 decir nada que tenga relevancia.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hablar por los codos"?
"hablar por los codos" is spelled H-A-B-L-A-R- -P-O-R- -L-O-S- -C-O-D-O-S. The IPA pronunciation is [aˈβ̞laɾ poɾ los ˈkoð̞os].
What does "hablar por los codos" mean?
As a phrase, "hablar por los codos" means: Hablar mucho y sin decir nada que tenga relevancia.
How do you pronounce "hablar por los codos"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hablar por los codos" is [aˈβ̞laɾ poɾ los ˈkoð̞os]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "hablar por los codos" 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.