hacer el ridículo

/[aˈseɾ el riˈð̞ikulo]/ phrase

Letters

17 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

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tracked variants

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similar word pairs

hacer el ridículo is aSpanishphrase. It means: Dicho de una persona, incurrir en actos o quedar en situaciones que pueden ser motivo de humillaciones y/o de burlas. Pronounced [aˈseɾ el riˈð̞ikulo].

Key facts for hacer el ridículo
PropertyValue
Headwordhacer el ridículo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[aˈseɾ el riˈð̞ikulo]
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

hacer el ridículo 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 hacer el ridículo is 17 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈseɾ el riˈð̞ikulo]. 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: "Dicho de una persona, incurrir en actos o quedar en situaciones que pueden ser motivo de humillaciones y/o de burlas.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for hacer el ridículo 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 hacer el ridículo, spelled H-A-C-E-R- -E-L- -R-I-D-Í-C-U-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dicho de una persona, incurrir en actos o quedar en situaciones que pueden ser motivo de humillaciones y/o de burlas.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hacer el ridículo"?
"hacer el ridículo" is spelled H-A-C-E-R- -E-L- -R-I-D-Í-C-U-L-O. The IPA pronunciation is [aˈseɾ el riˈð̞ikulo].
What does "hacer el ridículo" mean?
As a phrase, "hacer el ridículo" means: Dicho de una persona, incurrir en actos o quedar en situaciones que pueden ser motivo de humillaciones y/o de burlas.
How do you pronounce "hacer el ridículo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hacer el ridículo" is [aˈseɾ el riˈð̞ikulo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "hacer el ridículo" 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.