orejas de paila
The verdict
“orejas de paila” 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
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Las orejas muy abiertas y despegadas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | orejas de paila |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [oˈɾexas ð̞e ˈpajla] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “orejas de paila” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for orejas de paila is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [oˈɾexas ð̞e ˈpajla]. 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: "Las orejas muy abiertas y despegadas.".
No misspelling variants are generated for orejas de paila 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 orejas de paila, spelled O-R-E-J-A-S- -D-E- -P-A-I-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Las orejas muy abiertas y despegadas.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is O-R-E-J-A-S- -D-E- -P-A-I-L-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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