no tener pelos en la lengua

/[ˈno t̪eˈneɾ ˈpelos ẽn la ˈlẽŋgwa]/ phrase

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Spanish

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no tener pelos en la lengua is aSpanishphrase. It means: Dícese de alguien que habla siempre claro, incluso cuando puede molestar a alguien. Pronounced [ˈno t̪eˈneɾ ˈpelos ẽn la ˈlẽŋgwa].

Key facts for no tener pelos en la lengua
PropertyValue
Headwordno tener pelos en la lengua
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈno t̪eˈneɾ ˈpelos ẽn la ˈlẽŋgwa]
Letters27
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

no tener pelos en la lengua 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 tener pelos en la lengua is 27 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈno t̪eˈneɾ ˈpelos ẽn la ˈlẽŋgwa]. 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: "Dícese de alguien que habla siempre claro, incluso cuando puede molestar a alguien.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for no tener pelos en la lengua 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 tener pelos en la lengua, spelled N-O- -T-E-N-E-R- -P-E-L-O-S- -E-N- -L-A- -L-E-N-G-U-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dícese de alguien que habla siempre claro, incluso cuando puede molestar a alguien.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "no tener pelos en la lengua"?
"no tener pelos en la lengua" is spelled N-O- -T-E-N-E-R- -P-E-L-O-S- -E-N- -L-A- -L-E-N-G-U-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈno t̪eˈneɾ ˈpelos ẽn la ˈlẽŋgwa].
What does "no tener pelos en la lengua" mean?
As a phrase, "no tener pelos en la lengua" means: Dícese de alguien que habla siempre claro, incluso cuando puede molestar a alguien.
How do you pronounce "no tener pelos en la lengua"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "no tener pelos en la lengua" is [ˈno t̪eˈneɾ ˈpelos ẽn la ˈlẽŋgwa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.