poner de patitas en la calle
[poˈneɾ ð̞e paˈt̪it̪as ẽn la ˈkaʝe]
The verdict
“poner de patitas en la calle” 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
- 28
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Echar a una persona de un sitio, despedir de un lugar de trabajo o expulsar de un recinto educativo. Generalmente de manera violenta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poner de patitas en la calle |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [poˈneɾ ð̞e paˈt̪it̪as ẽn la ˈkaʝe] |
| Letters | 28 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “poner de patitas en la calle” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for poner de patitas en la calle is 28 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [poˈneɾ ð̞e paˈt̪it̪as ẽn la ˈkaʝe]. 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: "Echar a una persona de un sitio, despedir de un lugar de trabajo o expulsar de un recinto educativo. Generalmente de manera violenta.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for poner de patitas en la calle, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is poner de patitas en la calle, spelled P-O-N-E-R- -D-E- -P-A-T-I-T-A-S- -E-N- -L-A- -C-A-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Echar a una persona de un sitio, despedir de un lugar de trabajo o expulsar de un recinto educativo. Generalmente de manera violenta.
This word in other languages
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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- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-O-N-E-R- -D-E- -P-A-T-I-T-A-S- -E-N- -L-A- -C-A-L-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.