hacerse un ovillo
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17 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
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hacerse un ovillo is aSpanishphrase. It means: Encogerse, contraerse, acurrucarse por miedo, dolor u otra causa natural. Pronounced [aˈseɾse ũn oˈβ̞iʝo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hacerse un ovillo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [aˈseɾse ũn oˈβ̞iʝo] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for hacerse un ovillo is 17 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈseɾse ũn oˈβ̞iʝo]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for hacerse un ovillo 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 un ovillo, spelled H-A-C-E-R-S-E- -U-N- -O-V-I-L-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Encogerse, contraerse, acurrucarse por miedo, dolor u otra causa natural.
- 2Embrollarse, confundirse hablando o discurriendo.
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