romper el hielo
The verdict
“romper el hielo” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Llevar a cabo alguna acción con el fin de aliviar la tensión o falta de confianza que exista en una relación o reunión concreta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | romper el hielo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [rõmˈpeɾ el ˈjelo] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “romper el hielo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for romper el hielo is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [rõmˈpeɾ el ˈjelo]. 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: "Llevar a cabo alguna acción con el fin de aliviar la tensión o falta de confianza que exista en una relación o reunión concreta.".
No misspelling variants are generated for romper el hielo 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 romper el hielo, spelled R-O-M-P-E-R- -E-L- -H-I-E-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Llevar a cabo alguna acción con el fin de aliviar la tensión o falta de confianza que exista en una relación o reunión concreta.
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Using “romper el hielo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is R-O-M-P-E-R- -E-L- -H-I-E-L-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [rõmˈpeɾ el ˈjelo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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