tanto va el cántaro al agua, que al final se rompe

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The Spanish entry for tanto va el cántaro al agua, que al final se rompe is 50 letters long, classified as aproverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪ãn̪t̪o ˈβ̞a el ˈkãn̪t̪aɾo al ˈaɣ̞wa | ke al fiˈnal se ˈrõmpe]. 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: "Indica que si alguien se expone a menudo a situaciones de peligro, acabará teniendo que sufrir las consecuencias negativas de las mismas.".

No misspelling variants are generated for tanto va el cántaro al agua, que al final se rompe 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 tanto va el cántaro al agua, que al final se rompe, spelled T-A-N-T-O- -V-A- -E-L- -C-Á-N-T-A-R-O- -A-L- -A-G-U-A-,- -Q-U-E- -A-L- -F-I-N-A-L- -S-E- -R-O-M-P-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.