fóra de tempo
[ˈfoɾɐ ð̞ɪ ˈt̪empʊ]
The verdict
“fóra de tempo” 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Fuera de tiempo (intempestivamente, en ocasión inoportuna).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fóra de tempo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈfoɾɐ ð̞ɪ ˈt̪empʊ] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fóra de tempo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for fóra de tempo is 13 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfoɾɐ ð̞ɪ ˈt̪empʊ]. 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: "Fuera de tiempo (intempestivamente, en ocasión inoportuna).".
No misspelling variants are generated for fóra de tempo 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 fóra de tempo, spelled F-Ó-R-A- -D-E- -T-E-M-P-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fuera de tiempo (intempestivamente, en ocasión inoportuna).
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 “fóra de tempo”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is F-Ó-R-A- -D-E- -T-E-M-P-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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