echar la vista

/[eˈt͡ʃaɾ la ˈβ̞ist̪a]/ phrase

Letters

14 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

echar la vista is aSpanishphrase. It means: Elegir mentalmente una cosa entre otras. Pronounced [eˈt͡ʃaɾ la ˈβ̞ist̪a].

Key facts for echar la vista
PropertyValue
Headwordechar la vista
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[eˈt͡ʃaɾ la ˈβ̞ist̪a]
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

echar la vista 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 echar la vista is 14 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eˈt͡ʃaɾ la ˈβ̞ist̪a]. 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 echar 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 echar la vista, spelled E-C-H-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

  1. 1
    Elegir mentalmente una cosa entre otras.
  2. 2
    Llegar a ver o conocer a alguien cuando le anda buscando.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "echar la vista"?
"echar la vista" is spelled E-C-H-A-R- -L-A- -V-I-S-T-A. The IPA pronunciation is [eˈt͡ʃaɾ la ˈβ̞ist̪a].
What does "echar la vista" mean?
As a phrase, "echar la vista" means: Elegir mentalmente una cosa entre otras.
How do you pronounce "echar la vista"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "echar la vista" is [eˈt͡ʃaɾ la ˈβ̞ist̪a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "echar la vista" come from?
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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.