sin pies ni cabeza
[sĩn ˈpjes ni kaˈβ̞esa]
The verdict
“sin pies ni 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Absurdo, contrario a la razón.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sin pies ni cabeza |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [sĩn ˈpjes ni kaˈβ̞esa] |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sin pies ni cabeza” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for sin pies ni cabeza is 18 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sĩn ˈpjes ni 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: "Absurdo, contrario a la razón.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sin pies ni 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 sin pies ni cabeza, spelled S-I-N- -P-I-E-S- -N-I- -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
- 1Absurdo, contrario a la razón.
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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- The one correct Spanish spelling is S-I-N- -P-I-E-S- -N-I- -C-A-B-E-Z-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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