jugar con candela
[xuˈɣ̞aɾ kõŋ kãn̪ˈd̪ela]
The verdict
“jugar con candela” 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
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Hacer cosas extremadamente peligrosas o cometer imprudencias graves que pueden poner en riesgo la vida o la integridad física.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jugar con candela |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [xuˈɣ̞aɾ kõŋ kãn̪ˈd̪ela] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jugar con candela” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for jugar con candela is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [xuˈɣ̞aɾ kõŋ kãn̪ˈd̪ela]. 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: "Hacer cosas extremadamente peligrosas o cometer imprudencias graves que pueden poner en riesgo la vida o la integridad física.".
No misspelling variants are generated for jugar con candela 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 jugar con candela, spelled J-U-G-A-R- -C-O-N- -C-A-N-D-E-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Hacer cosas extremadamente peligrosas o cometer imprudencias graves que pueden poner en riesgo la vida o la integridad física.
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-G-A-R- -C-O-N- -C-A-N-D-E-L-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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