lo mejor es enemigo de lo bueno

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for lo mejor es enemigo de lo bueno is 31 letters long, classified as a proverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [lo meˈxoɾ ˈes eneˈmiɣ̞o ð̞e lo ˈβ̞weno]. 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: "Algunas veces es necesario sacrificar la búsqueda de la perfección para lograr una buena solución de forma más rápida.".

No misspelling variants are generated for lo mejor es enemigo de lo bueno 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 mejor es enemigo de lo bueno, spelled L-O- -M-E-J-O-R- -E-S- -E-N-E-M-I-G-O- -D-E- -L-O- -B-U-E-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.