saltar la cuerda

/[sal̪ˈt̪aɾ la ˈkweɾð̞a]/ phrase

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16 characters

Language

Spanish

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saltar la cuerda is aSpanishphrase. It means: Juego que consiste en que uno o más participantes saltan sobre una cuerda que se hace girar de modo que pase debajo de sus pies y sobre sus cabezas. Este juego consta de por lo menos tres personas,... Pronounced [sal̪ˈt̪aɾ la ˈkweɾð̞a].

Key facts for saltar la cuerda
PropertyValue
Headwordsaltar la cuerda
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[sal̪ˈt̪aɾ la ˈkweɾð̞a]
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

saltar la cuerda is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for saltar la cuerda is 16 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sal̪ˈt̪aɾ la ˈkweɾð̞a]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for saltar la cuerda in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 la cuerda, spelled S-A-L-T-A-R- -L-A- -C-U-E-R-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Juego que consiste en que uno o más participantes saltan sobre una cuerda que se hace girar de modo que pase debajo de sus pies y sobre sus cabezas. Este juego consta de por lo menos tres personas, dos que voltean la cuerda mientras que una tercera salta.
  2. 2
    Hacer girar una cuerda sobre uno mismo (tomando cada extremo con cada mano) y saltarla, con fin de entretención o de ejercicio.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "saltar la cuerda"?
"saltar la cuerda" is spelled S-A-L-T-A-R- -L-A- -C-U-E-R-D-A. The IPA pronunciation is [sal̪ˈt̪aɾ la ˈkweɾð̞a].
What does "saltar la cuerda" mean?
As a phrase, "saltar la cuerda" means: Juego que consiste en que uno o más participantes saltan sobre una cuerda que se hace girar de modo que pase debajo de sus pies y sobre sus cabezas. Este juego consta de por lo menos tres personas,...
How do you pronounce "saltar la cuerda"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "saltar la cuerda" is [sal̪ˈt̪aɾ la ˈkweɾð̞a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "saltar la cuerda" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.