no perder de vista
The verdict
“no perder de vista” 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
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Estar observando una persona o cosa sin apartarse de ella.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | no perder de vista |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈno peɾˈð̞eɾ ð̞e ˈβ̞ist̪a] |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “no perder de vista” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for no perder de vista is 18 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈno peɾˈð̞eɾ ð̞e ˈβ̞ist̪a]. 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 no perder de vista 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 no perder de vista, spelled N-O- -P-E-R-D-E-R- -D-E- -V-I-S-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Estar observando una persona o cosa sin apartarse de ella.
- 2Seguir sin intermisión un intento.
- 3Cuidar con suma vigilancia de una cosa, o pensar continuamente en ella.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is N-O- -P-E-R-D-E-R- -D-E- -V-I-S-T-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈno peɾˈð̞eɾ ð̞e ˈβ̞ist̪a] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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