pegar la hebra

/[peˈɣ̞aɾ la ˈeβ̞ɾa]/ phrase

Letters

14 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

pegar la hebra is aSpanishphrase. It means: Entablar conversación sin haberlo premeditado. Pronounced [peˈɣ̞aɾ la ˈeβ̞ɾa].

Key facts for pegar la hebra
PropertyValue
Headwordpegar la hebra
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[peˈɣ̞aɾ la ˈeβ̞ɾa]
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

pegar la hebra 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 pegar la hebra is 14 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [peˈɣ̞aɾ la ˈeβ̞ɾa]. 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 pegar la hebra 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 pegar la hebra, spelled P-E-G-A-R- -L-A- -H-E-B-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Entablar conversación sin haberlo premeditado.
  2. 2
    Prolongar una conversación por más tiempo de lo conveniente.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pegar la hebra"?
"pegar la hebra" is spelled P-E-G-A-R- -L-A- -H-E-B-R-A. The IPA pronunciation is [peˈɣ̞aɾ la ˈeβ̞ɾa].
What does "pegar la hebra" mean?
As a phrase, "pegar la hebra" means: Entablar conversación sin haberlo premeditado.
How do you pronounce "pegar la hebra"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pegar la hebra" is [peˈɣ̞aɾ la ˈeβ̞ɾa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pegar la hebra" 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.