la curiosidad mató al gato

/[la kuɾjosiˈð̞að̞ maˈt̪o al ˈɣ̞at̪o]/ phrase

Letters

26 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

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la curiosidad mató al gato is aSpanishphrase. It means: Se usa para advertir que alguien está indagando asuntos peligrosos o que no son de su incumbencia. Pronounced [la kuɾjosiˈð̞að̞ maˈt̪o al ˈɣ̞at̪o].

Key facts for la curiosidad mató al gato
PropertyValue
Headwordla curiosidad mató al gato
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[la kuɾjosiˈð̞að̞ maˈt̪o al ˈɣ̞at̪o]
Letters26
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

la curiosidad mató al gato 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 la curiosidad mató al gato is 26 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [la kuɾjosiˈð̞að̞ maˈt̪o al ˈɣ̞at̪o]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for la curiosidad mató al gato 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 curiosidad mató al gato, spelled L-A- -C-U-R-I-O-S-I-D-A-D- -M-A-T-Ó- -A-L- -G-A-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Se usa para advertir que alguien está indagando asuntos peligrosos o que no son de su incumbencia.
  2. 2
    Se usa para referirse a que a veces no es adecuado curiosear demasiado en algo.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "la curiosidad mató al gato"?
"la curiosidad mató al gato" is spelled L-A- -C-U-R-I-O-S-I-D-A-D- -M-A-T-Ó- -A-L- -G-A-T-O. The IPA pronunciation is [la kuɾjosiˈð̞að̞ maˈt̪o al ˈɣ̞at̪o].
What does "la curiosidad mató al gato" mean?
As a phrase, "la curiosidad mató al gato" means: Se usa para advertir que alguien está indagando asuntos peligrosos o que no son de su incumbencia.
How do you pronounce "la curiosidad mató al gato"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "la curiosidad mató al gato" is [la kuɾjosiˈð̞að̞ maˈt̪o al ˈɣ̞at̪o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "la curiosidad mató al gato" 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.