tirar paso
[t̪iˈɾaɾ ˈpaso]
The verdict
“tirar paso” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Mover el cuerpo de forma rítmica al son de la música.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tirar paso |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [t̪iˈɾaɾ ˈpaso] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tirar paso” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tirar paso is 10 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪iˈɾaɾ ˈpaso]. 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: "Mover el cuerpo de forma rítmica al son de la música.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tirar paso 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 paso, spelled T-I-R-A-R- -P-A-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mover el cuerpo de forma rítmica al son de la música.
Synonyms
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- -P-A-S-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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