tener las cuarenta mil malas costumbres
The verdict
“tener las cuarenta mil malas costumbres” 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
- 39
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Hipérbole consistente en un modo de llamarle la atención a una persona que obra mal o tiene malos hábitos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tener las cuarenta mil malas costumbres |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [t̪eˈneɾ las kwaˈɾẽn̪t̪a ˈmil ˈmalas kosˈt̪ũmbɾes] |
| Letters | 39 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tener las cuarenta mil malas costumbres” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tener las cuarenta mil malas costumbres is 39 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪eˈneɾ las kwaˈɾẽn̪t̪a ˈmil ˈmalas kosˈt̪ũmbɾes]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for tener las cuarenta mil malas costumbres 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 las cuarenta mil malas costumbres, spelled T-E-N-E-R- -L-A-S- -C-U-A-R-E-N-T-A- -M-I-L- -M-A-L-A-S- -C-O-S-T-U-M-B-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Hipérbole consistente en un modo de llamarle la atención a una persona que obra mal o tiene malos hábitos.
- 2Por extensión, manera de decirle a una persona que es muy maniática y resabiada respecto a los alimentos.
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Using “tener las cuarenta mil malas costumbres”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is T-E-N-E-R- -L-A-S- -C-U-A-R-E-N-T-A- -M-I-L- -M-A-L-A-S- -C-O-S-T-U-M-B-R-E-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [t̪eˈneɾ las kwaˈɾẽn̪t̪a ˈmil ˈmalas kosˈt̪ũmbɾes] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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