mantener las apariencias
The verdict
“mantener las apariencias” 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
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Mantener una imagen de corrección o respetabilidad, disimulando aquello que se considera socialmente censurable.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mantener las apariencias |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [mãn̪t̪eˈneɾ las apaˈɾjẽnsjas] |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mantener las apariencias” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mantener las apariencias is 24 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [mãn̪t̪eˈneɾ las apaˈɾjẽnsjas]. 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: "Mantener una imagen de corrección o respetabilidad, disimulando aquello que se considera socialmente censurable.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mantener las apariencias 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 mantener las apariencias, spelled M-A-N-T-E-N-E-R- -L-A-S- -A-P-A-R-I-E-N-C-I-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mantener una imagen de corrección o respetabilidad, disimulando aquello que se considera socialmente censurable.
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Using “mantener las apariencias”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-A-N-T-E-N-E-R- -L-A-S- -A-P-A-R-I-E-N-C-I-A-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [mãn̪t̪eˈneɾ las apaˈɾjẽnsjas] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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