worth one's weight in gold

phrase

Letters

26 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

worth one's weight in gold is aSpanishphrase. It means: Que vale su peso en oro, vale oro

Key facts for worth one's weight in gold
PropertyValue
Headwordworth one's weight in gold
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
Letters26
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

worth one's weight in gold 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 worth one's weight in gold is 26 letters long, classified as aphrase. 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 su peso en oro, vale oro".

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

Definition

  1. 1
    Que vale su peso en oro, vale oro

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "worth one's weight in gold"?
"worth one's weight in gold" is spelled W-O-R-T-H- -O-N-E-'-S- -W-E-I-G-H-T- -I-N- -G-O-L-D.
What does "worth one's weight in gold" mean?
As a phrase, "worth one's weight in gold" means: Que vale su peso en oro, vale oro
What language does "worth one's weight in gold" 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.