tirar piedra
[t̪iˈɾaɾ ˈpjeð̞ɾa]
The verdict
“tirar piedra” 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
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Protestar con violencia en sitios públicos, lanzando objetos duros contra personas, vehículos o edificios.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tirar piedra |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [t̪iˈɾaɾ ˈpjeð̞ɾa] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tirar piedra” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tirar piedra is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪iˈɾaɾ ˈpjeð̞ɾa]. 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: "Protestar con violencia en sitios públicos, lanzando objetos duros contra personas, vehículos o edificios.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tirar piedra 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 piedra, spelled T-I-R-A-R- -P-I-E-D-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Protestar con violencia en sitios públicos, lanzando objetos duros contra personas, vehículos o edificios.
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Using “tirar piedra”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is T-I-R-A-R- -P-I-E-D-R-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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