sabe mais o demo por velho que por demo

/[ˈsaβ̞ɪ ˈma̠js ɔ ˈð̞emʊ pʊɾ ˈβ̞eʎʊ kɪ pʊɾ ˈð̞emʊ]/ proverb

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39 characters

Language

Spanish

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sabe mais o demo por velho que por demo is aSpanishproverb. It means: Más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo. Pronounced [ˈsaβ̞ɪ ˈma̠js ɔ ˈð̞emʊ pʊɾ ˈβ̞eʎʊ kɪ pʊɾ ˈð̞emʊ].

Key facts for sabe mais o demo por velho que por demo
PropertyValue
Headwordsabe mais o demo por velho que por demo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechProverb
IPA[ˈsaβ̞ɪ ˈma̠js ɔ ˈð̞emʊ pʊɾ ˈβ̞eʎʊ kɪ pʊɾ ˈð̞emʊ]
Letters39
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

sabe mais o demo por velho que por demo 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 sabe mais o demo por velho que por demo is 39 letters long, classified as aproverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsaβ̞ɪ ˈma̠js ɔ ˈð̞emʊ pʊɾ ˈβ̞eʎʊ kɪ pʊɾ ˈð̞emʊ]. 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: "Más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo.".

No misspelling variants are generated for sabe mais o demo por velho que por demo 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 sabe mais o demo por velho que por demo, spelled S-A-B-E- -M-A-I-S- -O- -D-E-M-O- -P-O-R- -V-E-L-H-O- -Q-U-E- -P-O-R- -D-E-M-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sabe mais o demo por velho que por demo"?
"sabe mais o demo por velho que por demo" is spelled S-A-B-E- -M-A-I-S- -O- -D-E-M-O- -P-O-R- -V-E-L-H-O- -Q-U-E- -P-O-R- -D-E-M-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈsaβ̞ɪ ˈma̠js ɔ ˈð̞emʊ pʊɾ ˈβ̞eʎʊ kɪ pʊɾ ˈð̞emʊ].
What does "sabe mais o demo por velho que por demo" mean?
As a proverb, "sabe mais o demo por velho que por demo" means: Más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo.
How do you pronounce "sabe mais o demo por velho que por demo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sabe mais o demo por velho que por demo" is [ˈsaβ̞ɪ ˈma̠js ɔ ˈð̞emʊ pʊɾ ˈβ̞eʎʊ kɪ pʊɾ ˈð̞emʊ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sabe mais o demo por velho que por demo" come from?
"sabe mais o demo por velho que por demo" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.