frente a frente
Letters
15 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
frente a frente is aSpanishphrase. It means: Ante la presencia de alguien o algo, directamente, en persona. Pronounced [ˈfɾẽn̪t̪e a ˈfɾẽn̪t̪e].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frente a frente |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈfɾẽn̪t̪e a ˈfɾẽn̪t̪e] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for frente a frente is 15 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfɾẽn̪t̪e a ˈfɾẽn̪t̪e]. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for frente a frente 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 frente a frente, spelled F-R-E-N-T-E- -A- -F-R-E-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ante la presencia de alguien o algo, directamente, en persona.
- 2(Por extensión) Delante de algo difícil o de modo muy cercano, personal, súbito o inquietante.
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