quien calla, otorga
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19 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
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quien calla, otorga is aSpanishproverb. It means: Enseña que quien no contradice en manera conveniente, da a entender que aprueba. Pronounced [kjẽŋ ˈkaʝa | oˈt̪oɾɣ̞a].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quien calla, otorga |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proverb |
| IPA | [kjẽŋ ˈkaʝa | oˈt̪oɾɣ̞a] |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for quien calla, otorga is 19 letters long, classified as aproverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kjẽŋ ˈkaʝa | oˈt̪oɾɣ̞a]. 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: "Enseña que quien no contradice en manera conveniente, da a entender que aprueba.".
No misspelling variants are generated for quien calla, otorga 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 quien calla, otorga, spelled Q-U-I-E-N- -C-A-L-L-A-,- -O-T-O-R-G-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Enseña que quien no contradice en manera conveniente, da a entender que aprueba.
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