hombre de la calle
The verdict
“hombre de la calle” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 18
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Persona común, sin poder ni autoridad.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hombre de la calle |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈõmbɾe ð̞e la ˈkaʝe] |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hombre de la calle” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for hombre de la calle is 18 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈõmbɾe ð̞e la ˈkaʝe]. 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 misspelling variants are generated for hombre de la calle in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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 hombre de la calle, spelled H-O-M-B-R-E- -D-E- -L-A- -C-A-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Persona común, sin poder ni autoridad.
- 2Vagabundo
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “hombre de la calle”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is H-O-M-B-R-E- -D-E- -L-A- -C-A-L-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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