mentir más que hablar
[mẽn̪ˈt̪iɾ ˈmas ke aˈβ̞laɾ]
The verdict
“mentir más que hablar” 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
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Decir muchas mentiras.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mentir más que hablar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [mẽn̪ˈt̪iɾ ˈmas ke aˈβ̞laɾ] |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mentir más que hablar” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mentir más que hablar is 21 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [mẽn̪ˈt̪iɾ ˈmas ke aˈβ̞laɾ]. 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: "Decir muchas mentiras.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mentir más que hablar 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 mentir más que hablar, spelled M-E-N-T-I-R- -M-Á-S- -Q-U-E- -H-A-B-L-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Decir muchas mentiras.
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-N-T-I-R- -M-Á-S- -Q-U-E- -H-A-B-L-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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