hombre del saco
The verdict
“hombre del saco” 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
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Personaje ficticio utilizado para asustar a los niños haciéndoles creer que se apoderará de ellos si son maleducados o traviesos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hombre del saco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈõmbɾe ð̞el ˈsako] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hombre del saco” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for hombre del saco is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈõmbɾe ð̞el ˈsako]. 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: "Personaje ficticio utilizado para asustar a los niños haciéndoles creer que se apoderará de ellos si son maleducados o traviesos.".
No misspelling variants are generated for hombre del saco 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 del saco, spelled H-O-M-B-R-E- -D-E-L- -S-A-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Personaje ficticio utilizado para asustar a los niños haciéndoles creer que se apoderará de ellos si son maleducados o traviesos.
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 del saco”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is H-O-M-B-R-E- -D-E-L- -S-A-C-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈõmbɾe ð̞el ˈsako] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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