pender de un hilo
[pẽn̪ˈd̪eɾ ð̞e ũn ˈilo]
The verdict
“pender de un hilo” 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) — Encontrarse en problemas muy delicados, los cuales puedan empeorar fácilmente.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pender de un hilo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [pẽn̪ˈd̪eɾ ð̞e ũn ˈilo] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pender de un hilo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pender de un hilo is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pẽn̪ˈd̪eɾ ð̞e ũn ˈilo]. 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: "Encontrarse en problemas muy delicados, los cuales puedan empeorar fácilmente.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pender de un hilo 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 pender de un hilo, spelled P-E-N-D-E-R- -D-E- -U-N- -H-I-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Encontrarse en problemas muy delicados, los cuales puedan empeorar fácilmente.
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 “pender de un hilo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-E-N-D-E-R- -D-E- -U-N- -H-I-L-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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