la culpa no la tiene el cerdo, sino quien le da de comer
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la culpa no la tiene el cerdo, sino quien le da de comer is aSpanishproverb. It means: Dicho que recalca la responsabilidad en quien permite que se haga un mal. Pronounced [la ˈkulpa ˈno la ˈt̪jene el ˈseɾð̞o | ˈsino kjẽn le ˈð̞a ð̞e koˈmeɾ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | la culpa no la tiene el cerdo, sino quien le da de comer |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proverb |
| IPA | [la ˈkulpa ˈno la ˈt̪jene el ˈseɾð̞o | ˈsino kjẽn le ˈð̞a ð̞e koˈmeɾ] |
| Letters | 56 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for la culpa no la tiene el cerdo, sino quien le da de comer is 56 letters long, classified as aproverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [la ˈkulpa ˈno la ˈt̪jene el ˈseɾð̞o | ˈsino kjẽn le ˈð̞a ð̞e koˈmeɾ]. 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: "Dicho que recalca la responsabilidad en quien permite que se haga un mal.".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for la culpa no la tiene el cerdo, sino quien le da de comer 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 la culpa no la tiene el cerdo, sino quien le da de comer, spelled L-A- -C-U-L-P-A- -N-O- -L-A- -T-I-E-N-E- -E-L- -C-E-R-D-O-,- -S-I-N-O- -Q-U-I-E-N- -L-E- -D-A- -D-E- -C-O-M-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dicho que recalca la responsabilidad en quien permite que se haga un mal.
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