lo primero es lo primero
[lo pɾiˈmeɾo ˈes lo pɾiˈmeɾo]
The verdict
“lo primero es lo primero” 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
- 24
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Expresión para remarcar la prioridad de ciertos asuntos más importantes frente a otros más secundarios.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lo primero es lo primero |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [lo pɾiˈmeɾo ˈes lo pɾiˈmeɾo] |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lo primero es lo primero” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for lo primero es lo primero is 24 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [lo pɾiˈmeɾo ˈes lo pɾiˈmeɾo]. 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: "Expresión para remarcar la prioridad de ciertos asuntos más importantes frente a otros más secundarios.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lo primero es lo primero 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 lo primero es lo primero, spelled L-O- -P-R-I-M-E-R-O- -E-S- -L-O- -P-R-I-M-E-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Expresión para remarcar la prioridad de ciertos asuntos más importantes frente a otros más secundarios.
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Using “lo primero es lo primero”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is L-O- -P-R-I-M-E-R-O- -E-S- -L-O- -P-R-I-M-E-R-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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