no dar pelota

/[ˈno ˈð̞aɾ peˈlot̪a]/ phrase

Letters

13 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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similar word pairs

no dar pelota is aSpanishphrase. It means: No hacer caso, no prestar atención. Pronounced [ˈno ˈð̞aɾ peˈlot̪a].

Key facts for no dar pelota
PropertyValue
Headwordno dar pelota
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈno ˈð̞aɾ peˈlot̪a]
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

no dar pelota is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for no dar pelota is 13 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈno ˈð̞aɾ peˈlot̪a]. 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: "No hacer caso, no prestar atención.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for no dar pelota 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 no dar pelota, spelled N-O- -D-A-R- -P-E-L-O-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    No hacer caso, no prestar atención.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "no dar pelota"?
"no dar pelota" is spelled N-O- -D-A-R- -P-E-L-O-T-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈno ˈð̞aɾ peˈlot̪a].
What does "no dar pelota" mean?
As a phrase, "no dar pelota" means: No hacer caso, no prestar atención.
How do you pronounce "no dar pelota"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "no dar pelota" is [ˈno ˈð̞aɾ peˈlot̪a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "no dar pelota" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.