tomar la lección
[t̪oˈmaɾ la lekˈsjõn]
The verdict
“tomar la lección” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Oírsela el maestro al discípulo, por lo regular con el libro o materia delante, para ver si la sabe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tomar la lección |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [t̪oˈmaɾ la lekˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tomar la lección” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tomar la lección is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪oˈmaɾ la lekˈsjõn]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for tomar la lección 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 tomar la lección, spelled T-O-M-A-R- -L-A- -L-E-C-C-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Oírsela el maestro al discípulo, por lo regular con el libro o materia delante, para ver si la sabe.
- 2Aprender de alguien, o para escarmiento o para gobierno propio.
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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Using “tomar la lección”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is T-O-M-A-R- -L-A- -L-E-C-C-I-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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