hacer la vista gorda

/[aˈseɾ la ˈβ̞ist̪a ˈɣ̞oɾð̞a]/ phrase

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].

Key facts for hacer la vista gorda
PropertyValue
Headwordhacer la vista gorda
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[aˈseɾ la ˈβ̞ist̪a ˈɣ̞oɾð̞a]
Letters20
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

hacer la vista gorda 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 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

  1. 1
    Fingir con disimulo que no ha visto una cosa.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hacer la vista gorda"?
"hacer la vista gorda" is spelled H-A-C-E-R- -L-A- -V-I-S-T-A- -G-O-R-D-A. The IPA pronunciation is [aˈseɾ la ˈβ̞ist̪a ˈɣ̞oɾð̞a].
What does "hacer la vista gorda" mean?
As a phrase, "hacer la vista gorda" means: Fingir con disimulo que no ha visto una cosa.
How do you pronounce "hacer la vista gorda"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hacer la vista gorda" is [aˈseɾ la ˈβ̞ist̪a ˈɣ̞oɾð̞a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "hacer la vista gorda" 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.