metedura de pata

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for metedura de pata is 16 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [met̪eˈð̞uɾa ð̞e ˈpat̪a]. 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: "Acción o efecto de meter la pata.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for metedura de pata in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 metedura de pata, spelled M-E-T-E-D-U-R-A- -D-E- -P-A-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.