tentar al diablo

/[t̪ẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ al̪ ˈd̪jaβ̞lo]/ phrase

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16 characters

Language

Spanish

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tentar al diablo is aSpanishphrase. It means: Correr un riesgo excesivo o innecesario, creando la posibilidad de perjudicarse. Pronounced [t̪ẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ al̪ ˈd̪jaβ̞lo].

Key facts for tentar al diablo
PropertyValue
Headwordtentar al diablo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[t̪ẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ al̪ ˈd̪jaβ̞lo]
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

tentar al diablo is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for tentar al diablo is 16 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪ẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ al̪ ˈd̪jaβ̞lo]. 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: "Correr un riesgo excesivo o innecesario, creando la posibilidad de perjudicarse.".

No misspelling variants are generated for tentar al diablo 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 tentar al diablo, spelled T-E-N-T-A-R- -A-L- -D-I-A-B-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Correr un riesgo excesivo o innecesario, creando la posibilidad de perjudicarse.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tentar al diablo"?
"tentar al diablo" is spelled T-E-N-T-A-R- -A-L- -D-I-A-B-L-O. The IPA pronunciation is [t̪ẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ al̪ ˈd̪jaβ̞lo].
What does "tentar al diablo" mean?
As a phrase, "tentar al diablo" means: Correr un riesgo excesivo o innecesario, creando la posibilidad de perjudicarse.
How do you pronounce "tentar al diablo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tentar al diablo" is [t̪ẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ al̪ ˈd̪jaβ̞lo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tentar al diablo" come from?
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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.