a costa de
Letters
10 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
a costa de is aSpanishphrase. It means: Riesgo que se asume al tratar de obtener alguna prebenda o beneficio. Pronounced [a ˈkost̪a ð̞e].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | a costa de |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [a ˈkost̪a ð̞e] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for a costa de is 10 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [a ˈkost̪a ð̞e]. 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: "Riesgo que se asume al tratar de obtener alguna prebenda o beneficio.".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for a costa de 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 a costa de, spelled A- -C-O-S-T-A- -D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Riesgo que se asume al tratar de obtener alguna prebenda o beneficio.
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