quien mucho abarca, poco aprieta

/[kjẽn ˈmut͡ʃo aˈβ̞aɾka | ˈpoko aˈpɾjet̪a]/ proverb

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32 characters

Language

Spanish

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quien mucho abarca, poco aprieta is aSpanishproverb. It means: Se emplea para señalar que quien desea obtener demasiado puede terminar con menos de lo que se puede obtener con expectativas realistas. Se aplica en especial al deseo de emprender demasiadas cosas... Pronounced [kjẽn ˈmut͡ʃo aˈβ̞aɾka | ˈpoko aˈpɾjet̪a].

Key facts for quien mucho abarca, poco aprieta
PropertyValue
Headwordquien mucho abarca, poco aprieta
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechProverb
IPA[kjẽn ˈmut͡ʃo aˈβ̞aɾka | ˈpoko aˈpɾjet̪a]
Letters32
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

quien mucho abarca, poco aprieta 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 mucho abarca, poco aprieta is 32 letters long, classified as aproverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kjẽn ˈmut͡ʃo aˈβ̞aɾka | ˈpoko aˈpɾjet̪a]. 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: "Se emplea para señalar que quien desea obtener demasiado puede terminar con menos de lo que se puede obtener con expectativas realistas. Se aplica en especial al deseo de emprender demasiadas cosas...".

No misspelling variants are generated for quien mucho abarca, poco aprieta 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 mucho abarca, poco aprieta, spelled Q-U-I-E-N- -M-U-C-H-O- -A-B-A-R-C-A-,- -P-O-C-O- -A-P-R-I-E-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Se emplea para señalar que quien desea obtener demasiado puede terminar con menos de lo que se puede obtener con expectativas realistas. Se aplica en especial al deseo de emprender demasiadas cosas a un tiempo.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quien mucho abarca, poco aprieta"?
"quien mucho abarca, poco aprieta" is spelled Q-U-I-E-N- -M-U-C-H-O- -A-B-A-R-C-A-,- -P-O-C-O- -A-P-R-I-E-T-A. The IPA pronunciation is [kjẽn ˈmut͡ʃo aˈβ̞aɾka | ˈpoko aˈpɾjet̪a].
What does "quien mucho abarca, poco aprieta" mean?
As a proverb, "quien mucho abarca, poco aprieta" means: Se emplea para señalar que quien desea obtener demasiado puede terminar con menos de lo que se puede obtener con expectativas realistas. Se aplica en especial al deseo de emprender demasiadas cosas...
How do you pronounce "quien mucho abarca, poco aprieta"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quien mucho abarca, poco aprieta" is [kjẽn ˈmut͡ʃo aˈβ̞aɾka | ˈpoko aˈpɾjet̪a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.