llamar la atención
[ʝaˈmaɾ la at̪ẽnˈsjõn]
The verdict
“llamar la atención” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Interesar mucho un asunto específico.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | llamar la atención |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ʝaˈmaɾ la at̪ẽnˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “llamar la atención” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for llamar la atención is 18 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʝaˈmaɾ la at̪ẽnˈsjõn]. 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 llamar la atención 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 llamar la atención, spelled L-L-A-M-A-R- -L-A- -A-T-E-N-C-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Interesar mucho un asunto específico.
- 2Reprender con severidad, amonestar verbalmente o por escrito.
- 3Ser objeto de miradas o de críticas.
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 “llamar la atención”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is L-L-A-M-A-R- -L-A- -A-T-E-N-C-I-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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