no llevar pies ni cabeza
The verdict
“no llevar pies ni cabeza” 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
- 24
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Variante de no tener pies ni cabeza.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | no llevar pies ni cabeza |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈno ʝeˈβ̞aɾ ˈpjes ni kaˈβ̞esa] |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “no llevar pies ni cabeza” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for no llevar pies ni cabeza is 24 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈno ʝeˈβ̞aɾ ˈpjes ni kaˈβ̞esa]. 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: "Variante de no tener pies ni cabeza.".
No misspelling variants are generated for no llevar pies ni cabeza 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 no llevar pies ni cabeza, spelled N-O- -L-L-E-V-A-R- -P-I-E-S- -N-I- -C-A-B-E-Z-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Variante de no tener pies ni cabeza.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is N-O- -L-L-E-V-A-R- -P-I-E-S- -N-I- -C-A-B-E-Z-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈno ʝeˈβ̞aɾ ˈpjes ni kaˈβ̞esa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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