dar por perdido

/[ˈd̪aɾ poɾ peɾˈð̞ið̞o]/ phrase

Letters

15 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

dar por perdido is aSpanishphrase. It means: Abandonar la búsqueda de algo al dificultarse su hallazgo. Pronounced [ˈd̪aɾ poɾ peɾˈð̞ið̞o].

Key facts for dar por perdido
PropertyValue
Headworddar por perdido
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈd̪aɾ poɾ peɾˈð̞ið̞o]
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

dar por perdido 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 dar por perdido is 15 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈd̪aɾ poɾ peɾˈð̞ið̞o]. 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 dar por perdido 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 dar por perdido, spelled D-A-R- -P-O-R- -P-E-R-D-I-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Abandonar la búsqueda de algo al dificultarse su hallazgo.
  2. 2
    Resignarse al hecho de que algo que se considera extraviado o desaparecido nunca más se volverá a ver o que algo nunca se dará.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dar por perdido"?
"dar por perdido" is spelled D-A-R- -P-O-R- -P-E-R-D-I-D-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈd̪aɾ poɾ peɾˈð̞ið̞o].
What does "dar por perdido" mean?
As a phrase, "dar por perdido" means: Abandonar la búsqueda de algo al dificultarse su hallazgo.
How do you pronounce "dar por perdido"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dar por perdido" is [ˈd̪aɾ poɾ peɾˈð̞ið̞o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dar por perdido" come from?
"dar por perdido" 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. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.