quien a hierro mata, a hierro muere
Letters
35 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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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].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quien a hierro mata, a hierro muere |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proverb |
| IPA | [kjẽn a ˈjero ˈmat̪a | a ˈjero ˈmweɾe] |
| Letters | 35 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Indica que si alguien castigó con las armas recibirá castigo con las mismas.
- 2Por extensión indica que alguien recibirá represalias consecuentes con su forma de obrar.
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