abuso de poder

/[aˈβ̞uso ð̞e poˈð̞eɾ]/ phrase

Letters

14 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

abuso de poder is aSpanishphrase. It means: Extralimitación en el uso de las facultades de la administración, de un órgano estatal cualquiera, o de sus funcionarios. Pronounced [aˈβ̞uso ð̞e poˈð̞eɾ].

Key facts for abuso de poder
PropertyValue
Headwordabuso de poder
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[aˈβ̞uso ð̞e poˈð̞eɾ]
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

abuso de poder is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for abuso de poder is 14 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈβ̞uso ð̞e poˈð̞eɾ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for abuso de poder 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 abuso de poder, spelled A-B-U-S-O- -D-E- -P-O-D-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Extralimitación en el uso de las facultades de la administración, de un órgano estatal cualquiera, o de sus funcionarios.
  2. 2
    En general, cualquier uso de la fuerza o de facultades discrecionales, más allá de lo que es razonable.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "abuso de poder"?
"abuso de poder" is spelled A-B-U-S-O- -D-E- -P-O-D-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is [aˈβ̞uso ð̞e poˈð̞eɾ].
What does "abuso de poder" mean?
As a phrase, "abuso de poder" means: Extralimitación en el uso de las facultades de la administración, de un órgano estatal cualquiera, o de sus funcionarios.
How do you pronounce "abuso de poder"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "abuso de poder" is [aˈβ̞uso ð̞e poˈð̞eɾ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "abuso de poder" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.