lavarse las manos
Letters
17 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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lavarse las manos is aSpanishphrase. It means: No inmiscuirse en un asunto. Pronounced [laˈβ̞aɾse las ˈmanos].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lavarse las manos |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [laˈβ̞aɾse las ˈmanos] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for lavarse las manos is 17 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [laˈβ̞aɾse las ˈmanos]. 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 misspelling variants are generated for lavarse las manos 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 lavarse las manos, spelled L-A-V-A-R-S-E- -L-A-S- -M-A-N-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1No inmiscuirse en un asunto.
- 2Desentenderse de alguna responsabilidad.
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