tener más hambre que el perro de un ciego

/[t̪eˈneɾ ˈmas ˈãmbɾe ke el ˈpero ð̞e ũn ˈsjeɣ̞o]/ phrase

The verdict

“tener más hambre que el perro de un ciego” 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
41
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Tener mucha hambre.

Key facts for tener más hambre que el perro de un ciego
PropertyValue
Headwordtener más hambre que el perro de un ciego
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[t̪eˈneɾ ˈmas ˈãmbɾe ke el ˈpero ð̞e ũn ˈsjeɣ̞o]
Letters41
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “tener más hambre que el perro de un ciego” sits in Spanish frequency

tener más hambre que el perro de un ciego 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 más hambre que el perro de un ciego is 41 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪eˈneɾ ˈmas ˈãmbɾe ke el ˈpero ð̞e ũn ˈsjeɣ̞o]. 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 mucha hambre.".

No misspelling variants are generated for tener más hambre que el perro de un ciego 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 más hambre que el perro de un ciego, spelled T-E-N-E-R- -M-Á-S- -H-A-M-B-R-E- -Q-U-E- -E-L- -P-E-R-R-O- -D-E- -U-N- -C-I-E-G-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tener mucha hambre.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tener más hambre que el perro de un ciego"?
"tener más hambre que el perro de un ciego" is spelled T-E-N-E-R- -M-Á-S- -H-A-M-B-R-E- -Q-U-E- -E-L- -P-E-R-R-O- -D-E- -U-N- -C-I-E-G-O. The IPA pronunciation is [t̪eˈneɾ ˈmas ˈãmbɾe ke el ˈpero ð̞e ũn ˈsjeɣ̞o].
What does "tener más hambre que el perro de un ciego" mean?
As a phrase, "tener más hambre que el perro de un ciego" means: Tener mucha hambre.
How do you pronounce "tener más hambre que el perro de un ciego"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tener más hambre que el perro de un ciego" is [t̪eˈneɾ ˈmas ˈãmbɾe ke el ˈpero ð̞e ũn ˈsjeɣ̞o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tener más hambre que el perro de un ciego" come from?
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Using “tener más hambre que el perro de un ciego”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Spanish spelling is T-E-N-E-R- -M-Á-S- -H-A-M-B-R-E- -Q-U-E- -E-L- -P-E-R-R-O- -D-E- -U-N- -C-I-E-G-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [t̪eˈneɾ ˈmas ˈãmbɾe ke el ˈpero ð̞e ũn ˈsjeɣ̞o] (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.