tener buen ojo
The verdict
“tener buen ojo” 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
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Ser hábil en algo que requiere el uso de la vista, tener la capacidad de hallar rápidamente la solución de ese tipo de problemas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tener buen ojo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [t̪eˈneɾ ˈβ̞wẽn ˈoxo] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tener buen ojo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tener buen ojo is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪eˈneɾ ˈβ̞wẽn ˈoxo]. 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: "Ser hábil en algo que requiere el uso de la vista, tener la capacidad de hallar rápidamente la solución de ese tipo de problemas.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tener buen ojo 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 tener buen ojo, spelled T-E-N-E-R- -B-U-E-N- -O-J-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ser hábil en algo que requiere el uso de la vista, tener la capacidad de hallar rápidamente la solución de ese tipo de problemas.
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Using “tener buen ojo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is T-E-N-E-R- -B-U-E-N- -O-J-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [t̪eˈneɾ ˈβ̞wẽn ˈoxo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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