echar una vista

/[eˈt͡ʃaɾ ˈuna ˈβ̞ist̪a]/ phrase

Letters

15 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

echar una vista is aSpanishphrase. It means: Cuidar de una cosa mirándola de cuando en cuando. Usado frecuentemente para encargar este cuidado. Pronounced [eˈt͡ʃaɾ ˈuna ˈβ̞ist̪a].

Key facts for echar una vista
PropertyValue
Headwordechar una vista
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[eˈt͡ʃaɾ ˈuna ˈβ̞ist̪a]
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

echar una vista is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for echar una vista is 15 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eˈt͡ʃaɾ ˈuna 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: "Cuidar de una cosa mirándola de cuando en cuando. Usado frecuentemente para encargar este cuidado.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for echar una vista in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 una vista, spelled E-C-H-A-R- -U-N-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
    Cuidar de una cosa mirándola de cuando en cuando. Usado frecuentemente para encargar este cuidado.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "echar una vista"?
"echar una vista" is spelled E-C-H-A-R- -U-N-A- -V-I-S-T-A. The IPA pronunciation is [eˈt͡ʃaɾ ˈuna ˈβ̞ist̪a].
What does "echar una vista" mean?
As a phrase, "echar una vista" means: Cuidar de una cosa mirándola de cuando en cuando. Usado frecuentemente para encargar este cuidado.
How do you pronounce "echar una vista"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "echar una vista" is [eˈt͡ʃaɾ ˈuna ˈβ̞ist̪a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "echar una vista" come from?
"echar una vista" 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. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.