à première vue

/[a pʁə.mjɛʁ vy]/ adv

Letters

14 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

à première vue is anSpanishadv. It means: A simple vista (superficialmente). Pronounced [a pʁə.mjɛʁ vy].

Key facts for à première vue
PropertyValue
Headwordà première vue
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechAdv
IPA[a pʁə.mjɛʁ vy]
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à première vue 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 à première vue is 14 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [a pʁə.mjɛʁ vy]. 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: "A simple vista (superficialmente).".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à première vue 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 à première vue, spelled À- -P-R-E-M-I-È-R-E- -V-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    A simple vista (superficialmente).

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à première vue"?
"à première vue" is spelled À- -P-R-E-M-I-È-R-E- -V-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is [a pʁə.mjɛʁ vy].
What does "à première vue" mean?
As an adv, "à première vue" means: A simple vista (superficialmente).
How do you pronounce "à première vue"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à première vue" is [a pʁə.mjɛʁ vy]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à première vue" come from?
"à première vue" 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.