tira la piedra y esconde la mano

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for tira la piedra y esconde la mano is 32 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪iɾa la ˈpjeð̞ɾa i esˈkõn̪d̪e la ˈmano]. 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: "Dicho de una persona, que se comporta de manera cínica o con hipocresía haciéndose el desentendido a sabiendas de que es culpable.".

No misspelling variants are generated for tira la piedra y esconde la mano 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 tira la piedra y esconde la mano, spelled T-I-R-A- -L-A- -P-I-E-D-R-A- -Y- -E-S-C-O-N-D-E- -L-A- -M-A-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.