tener pájaros en la cabeza

/[t̪eˈneɾ ˈpaxaɾos ẽn la kaˈβ̞esa]/ phrase

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26 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

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similar word pairs

tener pájaros en la cabeza is aSpanishphrase. It means: Carecer de juicio y sensatez, ser atolondrado, alocado o distraído. Pronounced [t̪eˈneɾ ˈpaxaɾos ẽn la kaˈβ̞esa].

Key facts for tener pájaros en la cabeza
PropertyValue
Headwordtener pájaros en la cabeza
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[t̪eˈneɾ ˈpaxaɾos ẽn la kaˈβ̞esa]
Letters26
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

tener pájaros en la cabeza is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for tener pájaros en la cabeza is 26 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪eˈneɾ ˈpaxaɾos ẽn la kaˈβ̞esa]. 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: "Carecer de juicio y sensatez, ser atolondrado, alocado o distraído.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for tener pájaros en la cabeza in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 pájaros en la cabeza, spelled T-E-N-E-R- -P-Á-J-A-R-O-S- -E-N- -L-A- -C-A-B-E-Z-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Carecer de juicio y sensatez, ser atolondrado, alocado o distraído.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tener pájaros en la cabeza"?
"tener pájaros en la cabeza" is spelled T-E-N-E-R- -P-Á-J-A-R-O-S- -E-N- -L-A- -C-A-B-E-Z-A. The IPA pronunciation is [t̪eˈneɾ ˈpaxaɾos ẽn la kaˈβ̞esa].
What does "tener pájaros en la cabeza" mean?
As a phrase, "tener pájaros en la cabeza" means: Carecer de juicio y sensatez, ser atolondrado, alocado o distraído.
How do you pronounce "tener pájaros en la cabeza"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tener pájaros en la cabeza" is [t̪eˈneɾ ˈpaxaɾos ẽn la kaˈβ̞esa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tener pájaros en la cabeza" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.