hacer la vista gorda
Letters
20 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
hacer la vista gorda is aSpanishphrase. It means: Fingir con disimulo que no ha visto una cosa. Pronounced [aˈseɾ la ˈβ̞ist̪a ˈɣ̞oɾð̞a].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hacer la vista gorda |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [aˈseɾ la ˈβ̞ist̪a ˈɣ̞oɾð̞a] |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for hacer la vista gorda is 20 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈseɾ la ˈβ̞ist̪a ˈɣ̞oɾð̞a]. 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: "Fingir con disimulo que no ha visto una cosa.".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for hacer la vista gorda 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 la vista gorda, spelled H-A-C-E-R- -L-A- -V-I-S-T-A- -G-O-R-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fingir con disimulo que no ha visto una cosa.
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