jalón de orejas

/[xaˈlõn̪ d̪e oˈɾexas]/ phrase

Letters

15 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

jalón de orejas is aSpanishphrase. It means: Reprensión o amonestación con cierta severidad motivada a una accion indebida. Pronounced [xaˈlõn̪ d̪e oˈɾexas].

Key facts for jalón de orejas
PropertyValue
Headwordjalón de orejas
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[xaˈlõn̪ d̪e oˈɾexas]
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

jalón de orejas is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for jalón de orejas is 15 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [xaˈlõn̪ d̪e oˈɾexas]. 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: "Reprensión o amonestación con cierta severidad motivada a una accion indebida.".

No misspelling variants are generated for jalón de orejas 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 jalón de orejas, spelled J-A-L-Ó-N- -D-E- -O-R-E-J-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Reprensión o amonestación con cierta severidad motivada a una accion indebida.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jalón de orejas"?
"jalón de orejas" is spelled J-A-L-Ó-N- -D-E- -O-R-E-J-A-S. The IPA pronunciation is [xaˈlõn̪ d̪e oˈɾexas].
What does "jalón de orejas" mean?
As a phrase, "jalón de orejas" means: Reprensión o amonestación con cierta severidad motivada a una accion indebida.
How do you pronounce "jalón de orejas"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "jalón de orejas" is [xaˈlõn̪ d̪e oˈɾexas]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "jalón de orejas" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.