tener más miedo que siete viejas
The verdict
“tener más miedo que siete viejas” 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
- 32
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Tener mucho miedo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tener más miedo que siete viejas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [t̪eˈneɾ ˈmas ˈmjeð̞o ke ˈsjet̪e ˈβ̞jexas] |
| Letters | 32 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tener más miedo que siete viejas” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tener más miedo que siete viejas is 32 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪eˈneɾ ˈmas ˈmjeð̞o ke ˈsjet̪e ˈβ̞jexas]. 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 mucho miedo.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tener más miedo que siete viejas 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 miedo que siete viejas, spelled T-E-N-E-R- -M-Á-S- -M-I-E-D-O- -Q-U-E- -S-I-E-T-E- -V-I-E-J-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tener mucho miedo.
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Using “tener más miedo que siete viejas”
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- -M-I-E-D-O- -Q-U-E- -S-I-E-T-E- -V-I-E-J-A-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [t̪eˈneɾ ˈmas ˈmjeð̞o ke ˈsjet̪e ˈβ̞jexas] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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