worth one's salt

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for worth one's salt is 16 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈwɜːθ wʌnz ˈsɒlt]. 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: "Que vale la pena.".

No misspelling variants are generated for worth one's salt 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 worth one's salt, spelled W-O-R-T-H- -O-N-E-'-S- -S-A-L-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.