tirarse el pegote

/[t̪iˈɾaɾse el peˈɣ̞ot̪e]/ phrase

Letters

17 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

tirarse el pegote is aSpanishphrase. It means: Presumir de algo que es o se percibe como mentira o exagerado. Pronounced [t̪iˈɾaɾse el peˈɣ̞ot̪e].

Key facts for tirarse el pegote
PropertyValue
Headwordtirarse el pegote
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[t̪iˈɾaɾse el peˈɣ̞ot̪e]
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

tirarse el pegote 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 tirarse el pegote is 17 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪iˈɾaɾse el peˈɣ̞ot̪e]. 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: "Presumir de algo que es o se percibe como mentira o exagerado.".

No misspelling variants are generated for tirarse el pegote 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 tirarse el pegote, spelled T-I-R-A-R-S-E- -E-L- -P-E-G-O-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Presumir de algo que es o se percibe como mentira o exagerado.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tirarse el pegote"?
"tirarse el pegote" is spelled T-I-R-A-R-S-E- -E-L- -P-E-G-O-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is [t̪iˈɾaɾse el peˈɣ̞ot̪e].
What does "tirarse el pegote" mean?
As a phrase, "tirarse el pegote" means: Presumir de algo que es o se percibe como mentira o exagerado.
How do you pronounce "tirarse el pegote"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tirarse el pegote" is [t̪iˈɾaɾse el peˈɣ̞ot̪e]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tirarse el pegote" 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.