tener buenas aldabas
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tener buenas aldabas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [t̪eˈneɾ ˈβ̞wenas al̪ˈd̪aβ̞as] |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tener buenas aldabas” sits in Spanish frequency
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
- 1Tener amistades poderosas, contar con gente de gran poder social, político, económico, etc.
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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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