pagar los platos rotos

/[paˈɣ̞aɾ los ˈplat̪os ˈrot̪os]/ phrase

Letters

22 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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similar word pairs

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].

Key facts for pagar los platos rotos
PropertyValue
Headwordpagar los platos rotos
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[paˈɣ̞aɾ los ˈplat̪os ˈrot̪os]
Letters22
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

pagar los platos rotos 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 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

  1. 1
    Sufrir injustamente las consecuencias de una decisión o acción cometidas por un tercero.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pagar los platos rotos"?
"pagar los platos rotos" is spelled P-A-G-A-R- -L-O-S- -P-L-A-T-O-S- -R-O-T-O-S. The IPA pronunciation is [paˈɣ̞aɾ los ˈplat̪os ˈrot̪os].
What does "pagar los platos rotos" mean?
As a phrase, "pagar los platos rotos" means: Sufrir injustamente las consecuencias de una decisión o acción cometidas por un tercero.
How do you pronounce "pagar los platos rotos"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pagar los platos rotos" is [paˈɣ̞aɾ los ˈplat̪os ˈrot̪os]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pagar los platos rotos" come from?
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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.