pasar las de Caín
[paˈsaɾ las ð̞e kaˈĩn]
The verdict
“pasar las de Caín” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Sufrir grandes dificultades y penalidades.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pasar las de Caín |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [paˈsaɾ las ð̞e kaˈĩn] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pasar las de Caín” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pasar las de Caín is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [paˈsaɾ las ð̞e kaˈĩn]. 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 grandes dificultades y penalidades.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pasar las de Caín 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 pasar las de Caín, spelled P-A-S-A-R- -L-A-S- -D-E- -C-A-Í-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sufrir grandes dificultades y penalidades.
Synonyms
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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Using “pasar las de Caín”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-A-S-A-R- -L-A-S- -D-E- -C-A-Í-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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