acerca de

/[aˈseɾka ð̞e]/ phrase

Letters

9 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

acerca de is aSpanishphrase. It means: Respecto a, en lo que concierne a, en relación con. Pronounced [aˈseɾka ð̞e].

Key facts for acerca de
PropertyValue
Headwordacerca de
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[aˈseɾka ð̞e]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

acerca 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 acerca de is 9 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈseɾka 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: "Respecto a, en lo que concierne a, en relación con.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for acerca 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 acerca de, spelled A-C-E-R-C-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
    Respecto a, en lo que concierne a, en relación con.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "acerca de"?
"acerca de" is spelled A-C-E-R-C-A- -D-E. The IPA pronunciation is [aˈseɾka ð̞e].
What does "acerca de" mean?
As a phrase, "acerca de" means: Respecto a, en lo que concierne a, en relación con.
How do you pronounce "acerca de"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "acerca de" is [aˈseɾka ð̞e]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "acerca de" come from?
"acerca de" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Spanish words

Other entries that begin with the letter A in our Spanish index:

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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.