me cago en la Virgen
[me ˈkaɣ̞o ẽn la ˈβ̞iɾxẽn]
The verdict
“me cago en la Virgen” 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 enfado o irritación ante algo, indicando desprecio.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | me cago en la Virgen |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [me ˈkaɣ̞o ẽn la ˈβ̞iɾxẽn] |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “me cago en la Virgen” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for me cago en la Virgen is 20 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [me ˈkaɣ̞o ẽn la ˈβ̞iɾxẽn]. 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 enfado o irritación ante algo, indicando desprecio.".
No misspelling variants are generated for me cago en la Virgen 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 Virgen, spelled M-E- -C-A-G-O- -E-N- -L-A- -V-I-R-G-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Expresa enfado o irritación ante algo, indicando desprecio.
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- -V-I-R-G-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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