de sobra
Letters
8 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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de sobra is aSpanishphrase. It means: En abundancia, excesivamente, en mayor cantidad o proporción de lo necesario. Pronounced [d̪e ˈsoβ̞ɾa].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | de sobra |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [d̪e ˈsoβ̞ɾa] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for de sobra is 8 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪e ˈsoβ̞ɾa]. 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 de sobra 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 de sobra, spelled D-E- -S-O-B-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1En abundancia, excesivamente, en mayor cantidad o proporción de lo necesario.
- 2Sin ser necesario, inútilmente
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