ylli si dylli

//ˈy.ɫi si ˈdy.ɫi// proverb

Letters

13 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

ylli si dylli is aSpanishproverb. It means: "La estrella (es) como la cera": La suerte es caprichosa; la fortuna cambia, es variable. Pronounced /ˈy.ɫi si ˈdy.ɫi/.

Key facts for ylli si dylli
PropertyValue
Headwordylli si dylli
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechProverb
IPA/ˈy.ɫi si ˈdy.ɫi/
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

ylli si dylli 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 ylli si dylli is 13 letters long, classified as aproverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈy.ɫi si ˈdy.ɫi/. 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: ""La estrella (es) como la cera": La suerte es caprichosa; la fortuna cambia, es variable.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ylli si dylli 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 ylli si dylli, spelled Y-L-L-I- -S-I- -D-Y-L-L-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    "La estrella (es) como la cera": La suerte es caprichosa; la fortuna cambia, es variable.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ylli si dylli"?
"ylli si dylli" is spelled Y-L-L-I- -S-I- -D-Y-L-L-I. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈy.ɫi si ˈdy.ɫi/.
What does "ylli si dylli" mean?
As a proverb, "ylli si dylli" means: "La estrella (es) como la cera": La suerte es caprichosa; la fortuna cambia, es variable.
How do you pronounce "ylli si dylli"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ylli si dylli" is /ˈy.ɫi si ˈdy.ɫi/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ylli si dylli" 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.