saltar a los ojos
The verdict
“saltar a los ojos” 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
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Llamar fuertemente la atención por sus vivos colores o por otras calidades o circunstancias semejantes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saltar a los ojos |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [sal̪ˈt̪aɾ a los ˈoxos] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “saltar a los ojos” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for saltar a los ojos is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sal̪ˈt̪aɾ a los ˈoxos]. 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: "Llamar fuertemente la atención por sus vivos colores o por otras calidades o circunstancias semejantes.".
No misspelling variants are generated for saltar a los ojos 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 saltar a los ojos, spelled S-A-L-T-A-R- -A- -L-O-S- -O-J-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Llamar fuertemente la atención por sus vivos colores o por otras calidades o circunstancias semejantes.
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Using “saltar a los ojos”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is S-A-L-T-A-R- -A- -L-O-S- -O-J-O-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [sal̪ˈt̪aɾ a los ˈoxos] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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