tener buenas aldabas

/[t̪eˈneɾ ˈβ̞wenas al̪ˈd̪aβ̞as]/ phrase

The verdict

“tener buenas aldabas” 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
20
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Tener amistades poderosas, contar con gente de gran poder social, político, económico, etc.

Key facts for tener buenas aldabas
PropertyValue
Headwordtener buenas aldabas
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[t̪eˈneɾ ˈβ̞wenas al̪ˈd̪aβ̞as]
Letters20
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “tener buenas aldabas” sits in Spanish frequency

tener buenas aldabas falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Spanish words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for tener buenas aldabas is 20 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪eˈneɾ ˈβ̞wenas al̪ˈd̪aβ̞as]. 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: "Tener amistades poderosas, contar con gente de gran poder social, político, económico, etc.".

No misspelling variants are generated for tener buenas aldabas 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 buenas aldabas, spelled T-E-N-E-R- -B-U-E-N-A-S- -A-L-D-A-B-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tener amistades poderosas, contar con gente de gran poder social, político, económico, etc.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tener buenas aldabas"?
"tener buenas aldabas" is spelled T-E-N-E-R- -B-U-E-N-A-S- -A-L-D-A-B-A-S. The IPA pronunciation is [t̪eˈneɾ ˈβ̞wenas al̪ˈd̪aβ̞as].
What does "tener buenas aldabas" mean?
As a phrase, "tener buenas aldabas" means: Tener amistades poderosas, contar con gente de gran poder social, político, económico, etc.
How do you pronounce "tener buenas aldabas"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tener buenas aldabas" is [t̪eˈneɾ ˈβ̞wenas al̪ˈd̪aβ̞as]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “tener buenas aldabas”

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-A-S- -A-L-D-A-B-A-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [t̪eˈneɾ ˈβ̞wenas al̪ˈd̪aβ̞as] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.