me cago en la hostia
[me ˈkaɣ̞o ẽn la ˈost̪ja]
The verdict
“me cago en la hostia” 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Expresa gran irritación o molestia cuando algo no ocurre como se esperaba.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | me cago en la hostia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [me ˈkaɣ̞o ẽn la ˈost̪ja] |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “me cago en la hostia” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for me cago en la hostia is 20 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [me ˈkaɣ̞o ẽn la ˈost̪ja]. 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: "Expresa gran irritación o molestia cuando algo no ocurre como se esperaba.".
No misspelling variants are generated for me cago en la hostia 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 me cago en la hostia, spelled M-E- -C-A-G-O- -E-N- -L-A- -H-O-S-T-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Expresa gran irritación o molestia cuando algo no ocurre como se esperaba.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-E- -C-A-G-O- -E-N- -L-A- -H-O-S-T-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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