quien calla, otorga

/[kjẽŋ ˈkaʝa | oˈt̪oɾɣ̞a]/ proverb

Letters

19 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

quien calla, otorga is aSpanishproverb. It means: Enseña que quien no contradice en manera conveniente, da a entender que aprueba. Pronounced [kjẽŋ ˈkaʝa | oˈt̪oɾɣ̞a].

Key facts for quien calla, otorga
PropertyValue
Headwordquien calla, otorga
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechProverb
IPA[kjẽŋ ˈkaʝa | oˈt̪oɾɣ̞a]
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

quien calla, otorga is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

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

  1. 1
    Enseña que quien no contradice en manera conveniente, da a entender que aprueba.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quien calla, otorga"?
"quien calla, otorga" is spelled Q-U-I-E-N- -C-A-L-L-A-,- -O-T-O-R-G-A. The IPA pronunciation is [kjẽŋ ˈkaʝa | oˈt̪oɾɣ̞a].
What does "quien calla, otorga" mean?
As a proverb, "quien calla, otorga" means: Enseña que quien no contradice en manera conveniente, da a entender que aprueba.
How do you pronounce "quien calla, otorga"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quien calla, otorga" is [kjẽŋ ˈkaʝa | oˈt̪oɾɣ̞a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "quien calla, otorga" come from?
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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.