a costa de

/[a ˈkost̪a ð̞e]/ phrase

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].

Key facts for a costa de
PropertyValue
Headworda costa de
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[a ˈkost̪a ð̞e]
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

a costa de 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 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

  1. 1
    Riesgo que se asume al tratar de obtener alguna prebenda o beneficio.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "a costa de"?
"a costa de" is spelled A- -C-O-S-T-A- -D-E. The IPA pronunciation is [a ˈkost̪a ð̞e].
What does "a costa de" mean?
As a phrase, "a costa de" means: Riesgo que se asume al tratar de obtener alguna prebenda o beneficio.
How do you pronounce "a costa de"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "a costa de" is [a ˈkost̪a ð̞e]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "a costa de" come from?
"a costa de" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.