Juan de buen alma
The verdict
“Juan de buen alma” 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
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Hombre apocado, al que se le engaña con facilidad.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Juan de buen alma |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈxwãn̪ d̪e ˈβ̞wẽn ˈalma] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Juan de buen alma” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Juan de buen alma is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈxwãn̪ d̪e ˈβ̞wẽn ˈalma]. 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: "Hombre apocado, al que se le engaña con facilidad.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Juan de buen alma 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 Juan de buen alma, spelled J-U-A-N- -D-E- -B-U-E-N- -A-L-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Hombre apocado, al que se le engaña con facilidad.
Synonyms
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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- The one correct Spanish spelling is J-U-A-N- -D-E- -B-U-E-N- -A-L-M-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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