tirar piedras contra el propio tejado

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for tirar piedras contra el propio tejado is 37 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪iˈɾaɾ ˈpjeð̞ɾas ˈkõn̪t̪ɾa el ˈpɾopjo t̪eˈxað̞o]. 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: "Hablar, actuar o comportarse directa o indirectamente contra el beneficio o los intereses propios, habitualmente sin intencionalidad".

No misspelling variants are generated for tirar piedras contra el propio tejado 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 piedras contra el propio tejado, spelled T-I-R-A-R- -P-I-E-D-R-A-S- -C-O-N-T-R-A- -E-L- -P-R-O-P-I-O- -T-E-J-A-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.