comillas inglesas

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /koˌmiʝas inˈɡlesas/ [koˌmi.ʝas ĩŋˈɡle.sas]

• IPA^(key): /koˌmiʝas inˈɡlesas/ [koˌmi.ʝas ĩŋˈɡle.sas] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /koˌmiʎas inˈɡlesas/ [koˌmi.ʎas ĩŋˈɡle.sas] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /koˌmiʃas inˈɡlesas/ [koˌmi.ʃas ĩŋˈɡle.sas] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /koˌmiʒas inˈɡlesas/ [koˌmi.ʒas ĩŋˈɡle.sas] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /koˌmias inˈɡlesas/ [koˌmi.as ĩŋˈɡle.sas] (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

• Syllabification: co‧mi‧llas in‧gle‧sas

Noun

comillas inglesas f pl (plural only)

1. quotation marks (of the kind like “ ”)

   Synonym: comillas altas

Further reading

• “comillas inglesas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025