lágrimas de crocodilo
[ˈlɐɣ̞ɾimɐs ð̞ɪ kɾokoˈð̞ilʊ]
The verdict
“lágrimas de crocodilo” 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
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Lágrimas de cocodrilo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lágrimas de crocodilo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈlɐɣ̞ɾimɐs ð̞ɪ kɾokoˈð̞ilʊ] |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lágrimas de crocodilo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for lágrimas de crocodilo is 21 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlɐɣ̞ɾimɐs ð̞ɪ kɾokoˈð̞ilʊ]. 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: "Lágrimas de cocodrilo.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lágrimas de crocodilo 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 lágrimas de crocodilo, spelled L-Á-G-R-I-M-A-S- -D-E- -C-R-O-C-O-D-I-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lágrimas de cocodrilo.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is L-Á-G-R-I-M-A-S- -D-E- -C-R-O-C-O-D-I-L-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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