quien a hierro mata, a hierro muere

/[kjẽn a ˈjero ˈmat̪a | a ˈjero ˈmweɾe]/ proverb

Letters

35 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

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similar word pairs

quien a hierro mata, a hierro muere is aSpanishproverb. It means: Indica que si alguien castigó con las armas recibirá castigo con las mismas. Pronounced [kjẽn a ˈjero ˈmat̪a | a ˈjero ˈmweɾe].

Key facts for quien a hierro mata, a hierro muere
PropertyValue
Headwordquien a hierro mata, a hierro muere
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechProverb
IPA[kjẽn a ˈjero ˈmat̪a | a ˈjero ˈmweɾe]
Letters35
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

quien a hierro mata, a hierro muere 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 quien a hierro mata, a hierro muere is 35 letters long, classified as aproverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kjẽn a ˈjero ˈmat̪a | a ˈjero ˈmweɾe]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for quien a hierro mata, a hierro muere 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 quien a hierro mata, a hierro muere, spelled Q-U-I-E-N- -A- -H-I-E-R-R-O- -M-A-T-A-,- -A- -H-I-E-R-R-O- -M-U-E-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Indica que si alguien castigó con las armas recibirá castigo con las mismas.
  2. 2
    Por extensión indica que alguien recibirá represalias consecuentes con su forma de obrar.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quien a hierro mata, a hierro muere"?
"quien a hierro mata, a hierro muere" is spelled Q-U-I-E-N- -A- -H-I-E-R-R-O- -M-A-T-A-,- -A- -H-I-E-R-R-O- -M-U-E-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is [kjẽn a ˈjero ˈmat̪a | a ˈjero ˈmweɾe].
What does "quien a hierro mata, a hierro muere" mean?
As a proverb, "quien a hierro mata, a hierro muere" means: Indica que si alguien castigó con las armas recibirá castigo con las mismas.
How do you pronounce "quien a hierro mata, a hierro muere"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quien a hierro mata, a hierro muere" is [kjẽn a ˈjero ˈmat̪a | a ˈjero ˈmweɾe]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "quien a hierro mata, a hierro muere" 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.