teoría de las ventanas rotas

/[t̪eoˈɾia ð̞e las β̞ẽn̪ˈt̪anas ˈrot̪as]/ phrase

The verdict

“teoría de las ventanas rotas” 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
28
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Teoría que sostiene que los signos visibles de la delincuencia, el comportamiento antisocial y los disturbios civiles crean un entorno urbano que fomenta la delincuencia y el desorden, incluidos lo...

Key facts for teoría de las ventanas rotas
PropertyValue
Headwordteoría de las ventanas rotas
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[t̪eoˈɾia ð̞e las β̞ẽn̪ˈt̪anas ˈrot̪as]
Letters28
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “teoría de las ventanas rotas” sits in Spanish frequency

teoría de las ventanas rotas 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 teoría de las ventanas rotas is 28 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪eoˈɾia ð̞e las β̞ẽn̪ˈt̪anas ˈrot̪as]. 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: "Teoría que sostiene que los signos visibles de la delincuencia, el comportamiento antisocial y los disturbios civiles crean un entorno urbano que fomenta la delincuencia y el desorden, incluidos lo...".

No misspelling variants are generated for teoría de las ventanas rotas 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 teoría de las ventanas rotas, spelled T-E-O-R-Í-A- -D-E- -L-A-S- -V-E-N-T-A-N-A-S- -R-O-T-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Teoría que sostiene que los signos visibles de la delincuencia, el comportamiento antisocial y los disturbios civiles crean un entorno urbano que fomenta la delincuencia y el desorden, incluidos los delitos graves.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "teoría de las ventanas rotas"?
"teoría de las ventanas rotas" is spelled T-E-O-R-Í-A- -D-E- -L-A-S- -V-E-N-T-A-N-A-S- -R-O-T-A-S. The IPA pronunciation is [t̪eoˈɾia ð̞e las β̞ẽn̪ˈt̪anas ˈrot̪as].
What does "teoría de las ventanas rotas" mean?
As a phrase, "teoría de las ventanas rotas" means: Teoría que sostiene que los signos visibles de la delincuencia, el comportamiento antisocial y los disturbios civiles crean un entorno urbano que fomenta la delincuencia y el desorden, incluidos lo...
How do you pronounce "teoría de las ventanas rotas"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "teoría de las ventanas rotas" is [t̪eoˈɾia ð̞e las β̞ẽn̪ˈt̪anas ˈrot̪as]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “teoría de las ventanas rotas”

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

  • The one correct Spanish spelling is T-E-O-R-Í-A- -D-E- -L-A-S- -V-E-N-T-A-N-A-S- -R-O-T-A-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [t̪eoˈɾia ð̞e las β̞ẽn̪ˈt̪anas ˈrot̪as] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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