pagar los platos rotos
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22 characters
Language
Spanish
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pagar los platos rotos is aSpanishphrase. It means: Sufrir injustamente las consecuencias de una decisión o acción cometidas por un tercero. Pronounced [paˈɣ̞aɾ los ˈplat̪os ˈrot̪os].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pagar los platos rotos |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [paˈɣ̞aɾ los ˈplat̪os ˈrot̪os] |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for pagar los platos rotos is 22 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [paˈɣ̞aɾ los ˈplat̪os ˈrot̪os]. 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: "Sufrir injustamente las consecuencias de una decisión o acción cometidas por un tercero.".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for pagar los platos rotos 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 pagar los platos rotos, spelled P-A-G-A-R- -L-O-S- -P-L-A-T-O-S- -R-O-T-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sufrir injustamente las consecuencias de una decisión o acción cometidas por un tercero.
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