tapar el sol con un dedo

/[t̪aˈpaɾ el ˈsol kõn ũn̪ ˈd̪eð̞o]/ phrase

Letters

24 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

tapar el sol con un dedo is aSpanishphrase. It means: Intentar ocultar algo que es demasiado evidente. Pronounced [t̪aˈpaɾ el ˈsol kõn ũn̪ ˈd̪eð̞o].

Key facts for tapar el sol con un dedo
PropertyValue
Headwordtapar el sol con un dedo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[t̪aˈpaɾ el ˈsol kõn ũn̪ ˈd̪eð̞o]
Letters24
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

tapar el sol con un dedo is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for tapar el sol con un dedo is 24 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪aˈpaɾ el ˈsol kõn ũn̪ ˈd̪eð̞o]. 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: "Intentar ocultar algo que es demasiado evidente.".

No misspelling variants are generated for tapar el sol con un dedo 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 tapar el sol con un dedo, spelled T-A-P-A-R- -E-L- -S-O-L- -C-O-N- -U-N- -D-E-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Intentar ocultar algo que es demasiado evidente.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tapar el sol con un dedo"?
"tapar el sol con un dedo" is spelled T-A-P-A-R- -E-L- -S-O-L- -C-O-N- -U-N- -D-E-D-O. The IPA pronunciation is [t̪aˈpaɾ el ˈsol kõn ũn̪ ˈd̪eð̞o].
What does "tapar el sol con un dedo" mean?
As a phrase, "tapar el sol con un dedo" means: Intentar ocultar algo que es demasiado evidente.
How do you pronounce "tapar el sol con un dedo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tapar el sol con un dedo" is [t̪aˈpaɾ el ˈsol kõn ũn̪ ˈd̪eð̞o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tapar el sol con un dedo" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.