tomar el pelo

/[t̪oˈmaɾ el ˈpelo]/ phrase

Letters

13 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

tomar el pelo is aSpanishphrase. It means: Bromear haciendo creer algo ficticio a una persona para reírse de su reacción. Pronounced [t̪oˈmaɾ el ˈpelo].

Key facts for tomar el pelo
PropertyValue
Headwordtomar el pelo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[t̪oˈmaɾ el ˈpelo]
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

tomar el pelo is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for tomar el pelo is 13 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪oˈmaɾ el ˈpelo]. 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: "Bromear haciendo creer algo ficticio a una persona para reírse de su reacción.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for tomar el pelo in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 tomar el pelo, spelled T-O-M-A-R- -E-L- -P-E-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Bromear haciendo creer algo ficticio a una persona para reírse de su reacción.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tomar el pelo"?
"tomar el pelo" is spelled T-O-M-A-R- -E-L- -P-E-L-O. The IPA pronunciation is [t̪oˈmaɾ el ˈpelo].
What does "tomar el pelo" mean?
As a phrase, "tomar el pelo" means: Bromear haciendo creer algo ficticio a una persona para reírse de su reacción.
How do you pronounce "tomar el pelo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tomar el pelo" is [t̪oˈmaɾ el ˈpelo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tomar el pelo" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.