tirar las agujas
[t̪iˈɾaɾ las aˈɣ̞uxas]
The verdict
“tirar las agujas” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Decirle la hora a alguien.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tirar las agujas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [t̪iˈɾaɾ las aˈɣ̞uxas] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tirar las agujas” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tirar las agujas is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪iˈɾaɾ las aˈɣ̞uxas]. 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: "Decirle la hora a alguien.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tirar las agujas 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 tirar las agujas, spelled T-I-R-A-R- -L-A-S- -A-G-U-J-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Decirle la hora a alguien.
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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- The one correct Spanish spelling is T-I-R-A-R- -L-A-S- -A-G-U-J-A-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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