tirar los tejos

/[t̪iˈɾaɾ los ˈt̪exos]/ phrase

Letters

15 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

tirar los tejos is aSpanishphrase. It means: Tratar de seducir, insinuar interés hacia otra persona. Pronounced [t̪iˈɾaɾ los ˈt̪exos].

Key facts for tirar los tejos
PropertyValue
Headwordtirar los tejos
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[t̪iˈɾaɾ los ˈt̪exos]
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

tirar los tejos 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 tirar los tejos is 15 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪iˈɾaɾ los ˈt̪exos]. 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: "Tratar de seducir, insinuar interés hacia otra persona.".

No misspelling variants are generated for tirar los tejos 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 los tejos, spelled T-I-R-A-R- -L-O-S- -T-E-J-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tratar de seducir, insinuar interés hacia otra persona.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tirar los tejos"?
"tirar los tejos" is spelled T-I-R-A-R- -L-O-S- -T-E-J-O-S. The IPA pronunciation is [t̪iˈɾaɾ los ˈt̪exos].
What does "tirar los tejos" mean?
As a phrase, "tirar los tejos" means: Tratar de seducir, insinuar interés hacia otra persona.
How do you pronounce "tirar los tejos"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tirar los tejos" is [t̪iˈɾaɾ los ˈt̪exos]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tirar los tejos" 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.