lo cortés no quita lo valiente

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for lo cortés no quita lo valiente is 30 letters long, classified as a proverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [lo koɾˈt̪es ˈno ˈkit̪a lo β̞aˈljẽn̪t̪e]. 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: "Refrán que significa que no se debe presuponer que un acto cortés implica cobardía.".

No misspelling variants are generated for lo cortés no quita lo valiente 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 lo cortés no quita lo valiente, spelled L-O- -C-O-R-T-É-S- -N-O- -Q-U-I-T-A- -L-O- -V-A-L-I-E-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.