sentar la cabeza
[sẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ la kaˈβ̞esa]
The verdict
“sentar la cabeza” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Volverse una persona más juiciosa o madura.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sentar la cabeza |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [sẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ la kaˈβ̞esa] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sentar la cabeza” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for sentar la cabeza is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ la kaˈβ̞esa]. 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: "Volverse una persona más juiciosa o madura.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sentar la cabeza 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 sentar la cabeza, spelled S-E-N-T-A-R- -L-A- -C-A-B-E-Z-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Volverse una persona más juiciosa o madura.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “sentar la cabeza”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is S-E-N-T-A-R- -L-A- -C-A-B-E-Z-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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