qué pequeño es el mundo

/[ˈke peˈkeɲo ˈes el ˈmũn̪d̪o]/ proverb

The verdict

“qué pequeño es el mundo” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a proverb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency Spanish
23
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Manera de expresarse cuando se le presenta alguien conocido de hace mucho tiempo atrás sin sospechar que hay relación en común o bien cuando no se imaginaba que se la encontraría en un lugar especí...

Key facts for qué pequeño es el mundo
PropertyValue
Headwordqué pequeño es el mundo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechProverb
IPA[ˈke peˈkeɲo ˈes el ˈmũn̪d̪o]
Letters23
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “qué pequeño es el mundo” sits in Spanish frequency

qué pequeño es el mundo falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Spanish words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for qué pequeño es el mundo is 23 letters long, classified as a proverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈke peˈkeɲo ˈes el ˈmũn̪d̪o]. 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: "Manera de expresarse cuando se le presenta alguien conocido de hace mucho tiempo atrás sin sospechar que hay relación en común o bien cuando no se imaginaba que se la encontraría en un lugar especí...".

No misspelling variants are generated for qué pequeño es el mundo 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 qué pequeño es el mundo, spelled Q-U-É- -P-E-Q-U-E-Ñ-O- -E-S- -E-L- -M-U-N-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Manera de expresarse cuando se le presenta alguien conocido de hace mucho tiempo atrás sin sospechar que hay relación en común o bien cuando no se imaginaba que se la encontraría en un lugar específico.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "qué pequeño es el mundo"?
"qué pequeño es el mundo" is spelled Q-U-É- -P-E-Q-U-E-Ñ-O- -E-S- -E-L- -M-U-N-D-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈke peˈkeɲo ˈes el ˈmũn̪d̪o].
What does "qué pequeño es el mundo" mean?
As a proverb, "qué pequeño es el mundo" means: Manera de expresarse cuando se le presenta alguien conocido de hace mucho tiempo atrás sin sospechar que hay relación en común o bien cuando no se imaginaba que se la encontraría en un lugar especí...
How do you pronounce "qué pequeño es el mundo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "qué pequeño es el mundo" is [ˈke peˈkeɲo ˈes el ˈmũn̪d̪o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “qué pequeño es el mundo”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Spanish spelling is Q-U-É- -P-E-Q-U-E-Ñ-O- -E-S- -E-L- -M-U-N-D-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [ˈke peˈkeɲo ˈes el ˈmũn̪d̪o] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.