pedir peras al olmo
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19 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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0
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pedir peras al olmo is aSpanishphrase. It means: Demandar o solicitar cosas a sabiendas de que son imposibles. Pronounced [peˈð̞iɾ ˈpeɾas al ˈolmo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pedir peras al olmo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [peˈð̞iɾ ˈpeɾas al ˈolmo] |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for pedir peras al olmo is 19 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [peˈð̞iɾ ˈpeɾas al ˈolmo]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for pedir peras al olmo 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 pedir peras al olmo, spelled P-E-D-I-R- -P-E-R-A-S- -A-L- -O-L-M-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Demandar o solicitar cosas a sabiendas de que son imposibles.
- 2Pretender obtener cosas de personas que no pueden darlas.
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