clavar la vista
The verdict
“clavar la vista” 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
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Poner la vista en un objeto con atención y cuidado.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clavar la vista |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [klaˈβ̞aɾ la ˈβ̞ist̪a] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “clavar la vista” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for clavar la vista is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [klaˈβ̞aɾ la ˈβ̞ist̪a]. 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: "Poner la vista en un objeto con atención y cuidado.".
No misspelling variants are generated for clavar la vista 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 clavar la vista, spelled C-L-A-V-A-R- -L-A- -V-I-S-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Poner la vista en un objeto con atención y cuidado.
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Using “clavar la vista”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-L-A-V-A-R- -L-A- -V-I-S-T-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [klaˈβ̞aɾ la ˈβ̞ist̪a] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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