tener más miedo que siete viejas

/[t̪eˈneɾ ˈmas ˈmjeð̞o ke ˈsjet̪e ˈβ̞jexas]/ phrase

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.

Key facts for tener más miedo que siete viejas
PropertyValue
Headwordtener más miedo que siete viejas
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[t̪eˈneɾ ˈmas ˈmjeð̞o ke ˈsjet̪e ˈβ̞jexas]
Letters32
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “tener más miedo que siete viejas” sits in Spanish frequency

tener más miedo que siete viejas 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 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

  1. 1
    Tener mucho miedo.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tener más miedo que siete viejas"?
"tener más miedo que siete viejas" is 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. The IPA pronunciation is [t̪eˈneɾ ˈmas ˈmjeð̞o ke ˈsjet̪e ˈβ̞jexas].
What does "tener más miedo que siete viejas" mean?
As a phrase, "tener más miedo que siete viejas" means: Tener mucho miedo.
How do you pronounce "tener más miedo que siete viejas"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tener más miedo que siete viejas" is [t̪eˈneɾ ˈmas ˈmjeð̞o ke ˈsjet̪e ˈβ̞jexas]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tener más miedo que siete viejas" come from?
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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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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.