hombre de letras
The verdict
“hombre de letras” 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
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Persona de género masculino versada en literatura o ciencias sociales
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hombre de letras |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈõmbɾe ð̞e ˈlet̪ɾas] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hombre de letras” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for hombre de letras is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈõmbɾe ð̞e ˈlet̪ɾas]. 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: "Persona de género masculino versada en literatura o ciencias sociales".
No misspelling variants are generated for hombre de letras 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 letras, spelled H-O-M-B-R-E- -D-E- -L-E-T-R-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Persona de género masculino versada en literatura o ciencias sociales
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Using “hombre de letras”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is H-O-M-B-R-E- -D-E- -L-E-T-R-A-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈõmbɾe ð̞e ˈlet̪ɾas] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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