dejar perder
The verdict
“dejar perder” 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
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Desaprovechar o desperdiciar una oportunidad.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dejar perder |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [d̪eˈxaɾ peɾˈð̞eɾ] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dejar perder” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for dejar perder is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪eˈxaɾ peɾˈð̞eɾ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for dejar perder 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 dejar perder, spelled D-E-J-A-R- -P-E-R-D-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Desaprovechar o desperdiciar una oportunidad.
- 2Esperar a que un plazo pierda vigencia.
- 3No participar en una promoción o sorteo.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “dejar perder”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is D-E-J-A-R- -P-E-R-D-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [d̪eˈxaɾ peɾˈð̞eɾ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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