a pesar de

/[a peˈsaɾ ð̞e]/ phrase

Letters

10 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

a pesar de is aSpanishphrase. It means: Indica el conjunto de obstáculos considerados para algo que aún así sucede o se lleva a cabo. Aun con la resistencia u oposición de. Pronounced [a peˈsaɾ ð̞e].

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

Frequency rank visualization

a pesar 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 pesar de is 10 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [a peˈsaɾ 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: "Indica el conjunto de obstáculos considerados para algo que aún así sucede o se lleva a cabo. Aun con la resistencia u oposición de.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for a pesar 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 pesar de, spelled A- -P-E-S-A-R- -D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Indica el conjunto de obstáculos considerados para algo que aún así sucede o se lleva a cabo. Aun con la resistencia u oposición de.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "a pesar de"?
"a pesar de" is spelled A- -P-E-S-A-R- -D-E. The IPA pronunciation is [a peˈsaɾ ð̞e].
What does "a pesar de" mean?
As a phrase, "a pesar de" means: Indica el conjunto de obstáculos considerados para algo que aún así sucede o se lleva a cabo. Aun con la resistencia u oposición de.
How do you pronounce "a pesar de"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "a pesar de" is [a peˈsaɾ ð̞e]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "a pesar de" come from?
"a pesar 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.