abrir la puerta
[aˈβ̞ɾiɾ la ˈpweɾt̪a]
The verdict
“abrir la puerta” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Dar la oportunidad para que algo ocurra o se desarrolle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abrir la puerta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [aˈβ̞ɾiɾ la ˈpweɾt̪a] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “abrir la puerta” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for abrir la puerta is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈβ̞ɾiɾ la ˈpweɾt̪a]. 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: "Dar la oportunidad para que algo ocurra o se desarrolle.".
No misspelling variants are generated for abrir la puerta in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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 abrir la puerta, spelled A-B-R-I-R- -L-A- -P-U-E-R-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dar la oportunidad para que algo ocurra o se desarrolle.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-B-R-I-R- -L-A- -P-U-E-R-T-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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