irse de la lengua

/[ˈiɾse ð̞e la ˈlẽŋgwa]/ phrase

Letters

17 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

irse de la lengua is aSpanishphrase. It means: Contar algo que debía permanecer en secreto. Pronounced [ˈiɾse ð̞e la ˈlẽŋgwa].

Key facts for irse de la lengua
PropertyValue
Headwordirse de la lengua
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈiɾse ð̞e la ˈlẽŋgwa]
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

irse de la lengua 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 irse de la lengua is 17 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈiɾse ð̞e la ˈlẽŋgwa]. 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: "Contar algo que debía permanecer en secreto.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for irse de la lengua 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 irse de la lengua, spelled I-R-S-E- -D-E- -L-A- -L-E-N-G-U-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Contar algo que debía permanecer en secreto.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "irse de la lengua"?
"irse de la lengua" is spelled I-R-S-E- -D-E- -L-A- -L-E-N-G-U-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈiɾse ð̞e la ˈlẽŋgwa].
What does "irse de la lengua" mean?
As a phrase, "irse de la lengua" means: Contar algo que debía permanecer en secreto.
How do you pronounce "irse de la lengua"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "irse de la lengua" is [ˈiɾse ð̞e la ˈlẽŋgwa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "irse de la lengua" 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.