qué diablos

/[ˈke ˈð̞jaβ̞los]/ phrase

Letters

11 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

qué diablos is aSpanishphrase. It means: Úsase para enfatizar una pregunta o para expresar asombro, incredulidad o sorpresa. Pronounced [ˈke ˈð̞jaβ̞los].

Key facts for qué diablos
PropertyValue
Headwordqué diablos
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈke ˈð̞jaβ̞los]
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

qué diablos 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 qué diablos is 11 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈke ˈð̞jaβ̞los]. 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: "Úsase para enfatizar una pregunta o para expresar asombro, incredulidad o sorpresa.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for qué diablos 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 qué diablos, spelled Q-U-É- -D-I-A-B-L-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Úsase para enfatizar una pregunta o para expresar asombro, incredulidad o sorpresa.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "qué diablos"?
"qué diablos" is spelled Q-U-É- -D-I-A-B-L-O-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈke ˈð̞jaβ̞los].
What does "qué diablos" mean?
As a phrase, "qué diablos" means: Úsase para enfatizar una pregunta o para expresar asombro, incredulidad o sorpresa.
How do you pronounce "qué diablos"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "qué diablos" is [ˈke ˈð̞jaβ̞los]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "qué diablos" 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.