la policía no es tonta

/[la poliˈsia ˈno ˈes ˈt̪õn̪t̪a]/ phrase

Letters

22 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

la policía no es tonta is aSpanishphrase. It means: Se usa para advertir a alguien que está subestimando la inteligencia de otro a quien intenta engañar. Pronounced [la poliˈsia ˈno ˈes ˈt̪õn̪t̪a].

Key facts for la policía no es tonta
PropertyValue
Headwordla policía no es tonta
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[la poliˈsia ˈno ˈes ˈt̪õn̪t̪a]
Letters22
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

la policía no es tonta 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 policía no es tonta is 22 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [la poliˈsia ˈno ˈes ˈt̪õn̪t̪a]. 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: "Se usa para advertir a alguien que está subestimando la inteligencia de otro a quien intenta engañar.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for la policía no es tonta 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 policía no es tonta, spelled L-A- -P-O-L-I-C-Í-A- -N-O- -E-S- -T-O-N-T-A, 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 a alguien que está subestimando la inteligencia de otro a quien intenta engañar.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "la policía no es tonta"?
"la policía no es tonta" is spelled L-A- -P-O-L-I-C-Í-A- -N-O- -E-S- -T-O-N-T-A. The IPA pronunciation is [la poliˈsia ˈno ˈes ˈt̪õn̪t̪a].
What does "la policía no es tonta" mean?
As a phrase, "la policía no es tonta" means: Se usa para advertir a alguien que está subestimando la inteligencia de otro a quien intenta engañar.
How do you pronounce "la policía no es tonta"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "la policía no es tonta" is [la poliˈsia ˈno ˈes ˈt̪õn̪t̪a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "la policía no es tonta" 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.