no tener pelos en la lengua
Letters
27 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
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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].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | no tener pelos en la lengua |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈno t̪eˈneɾ ˈpelos ẽn la ˈlẽŋgwa] |
| Letters | 27 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Dícese de alguien que habla siempre claro, incluso cuando puede molestar a alguien.
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