hacerse el pendejo

/[aˈseɾse el pẽn̪ˈd̪exo]/ phrase

Letters

18 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

hacerse el pendejo is aSpanishphrase. It means: Fingir no tener conocimiento de un asunto para liberarse de las responsabilidades que a uno le incumben. Pronounced [aˈseɾse el pẽn̪ˈd̪exo].

Key facts for hacerse el pendejo
PropertyValue
Headwordhacerse el pendejo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[aˈseɾse el pẽn̪ˈd̪exo]
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

hacerse el pendejo 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 hacerse el pendejo is 18 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈseɾse el pẽn̪ˈd̪exo]. 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 no tener conocimiento de un asunto para liberarse de las responsabilidades que a uno le incumben.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for hacerse el pendejo 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 hacerse el pendejo, spelled H-A-C-E-R-S-E- -E-L- -P-E-N-D-E-J-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fingir no tener conocimiento de un asunto para liberarse de las responsabilidades que a uno le incumben.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hacerse el pendejo"?
"hacerse el pendejo" is spelled H-A-C-E-R-S-E- -E-L- -P-E-N-D-E-J-O. The IPA pronunciation is [aˈseɾse el pẽn̪ˈd̪exo].
What does "hacerse el pendejo" mean?
As a phrase, "hacerse el pendejo" means: Fingir no tener conocimiento de un asunto para liberarse de las responsabilidades que a uno le incumben.
How do you pronounce "hacerse el pendejo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hacerse el pendejo" is [aˈseɾse el pẽn̪ˈd̪exo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "hacerse el pendejo" 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.