volverse loco

/[bolˈβ̞eɾse ˈloko]/ phrase

Letters

13 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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volverse loco is aSpanishphrase. It means: Perder el juicio, la razón, la sensatez y la prudencia. Pronounced [bolˈβ̞eɾse ˈloko].

Key facts for volverse loco
PropertyValue
Headwordvolverse loco
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[bolˈβ̞eɾse ˈloko]
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

volverse loco 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 volverse loco is 13 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bolˈβ̞eɾse ˈloko]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for volverse loco 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 volverse loco, spelled V-O-L-V-E-R-S-E- -L-O-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Perder el juicio, la razón, la sensatez y la prudencia.
  2. 2
    Gastar dinero de manera desmesurada y desenfrenada.
  3. 3
    Embriagarse al punto de perder la cordura y el juicio.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "volverse loco"?
"volverse loco" is spelled V-O-L-V-E-R-S-E- -L-O-C-O. The IPA pronunciation is [bolˈβ̞eɾse ˈloko].
What does "volverse loco" mean?
As a phrase, "volverse loco" means: Perder el juicio, la razón, la sensatez y la prudencia.
How do you pronounce "volverse loco"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "volverse loco" is [bolˈβ̞eɾse ˈloko]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "volverse loco" 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.