quand on parle du loup, on en voit la queue

/[kɑ̃.t‿ɔ̃ paʁ.lə dy lu ɔ̃.n‿ɑ̃ vwa la kø]/ proverb

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quand on parle du loup, on en voit la queue is aSpanishproverb. It means: Hablando del rey de Roma, por la puerta asoma. (Literalmente: cuando se habla del lobo, se le ve la cola.) Pronounced [kɑ̃.t‿ɔ̃ paʁ.lə dy lu ɔ̃.n‿ɑ̃ vwa la kø].

Key facts for quand on parle du loup, on en voit la queue
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Headwordquand on parle du loup, on en voit la queue
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechProverb
IPA[kɑ̃.t‿ɔ̃ paʁ.lə dy lu ɔ̃.n‿ɑ̃ vwa la kø]
Letters43
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

quand on parle du loup, on en voit la queue 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 quand on parle du loup, on en voit la queue is 43 letters long, classified as aproverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kɑ̃.t‿ɔ̃ paʁ.lə dy lu ɔ̃.n‿ɑ̃ vwa la kø]. 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: "Hablando del rey de Roma, por la puerta asoma. (Literalmente: cuando se habla del lobo, se le ve la cola.)".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for quand on parle du loup, on en voit la queue 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 quand on parle du loup, on en voit la queue, spelled Q-U-A-N-D- -O-N- -P-A-R-L-E- -D-U- -L-O-U-P-,- -O-N- -E-N- -V-O-I-T- -L-A- -Q-U-E-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Hablando del rey de Roma, por la puerta asoma. (Literalmente: cuando se habla del lobo, se le ve la cola.)

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quand on parle du loup, on en voit la queue"?
"quand on parle du loup, on en voit la queue" is spelled Q-U-A-N-D- -O-N- -P-A-R-L-E- -D-U- -L-O-U-P-,- -O-N- -E-N- -V-O-I-T- -L-A- -Q-U-E-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is [kɑ̃.t‿ɔ̃ paʁ.lə dy lu ɔ̃.n‿ɑ̃ vwa la kø].
What does "quand on parle du loup, on en voit la queue" mean?
As a proverb, "quand on parle du loup, on en voit la queue" means: Hablando del rey de Roma, por la puerta asoma. (Literalmente: cuando se habla del lobo, se le ve la cola.)
How do you pronounce "quand on parle du loup, on en voit la queue"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quand on parle du loup, on en voit la queue" is [kɑ̃.t‿ɔ̃ paʁ.lə dy lu ɔ̃.n‿ɑ̃ vwa la kø]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.