parar mientes
The verdict
“parar mientes” 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
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Considerar una cosa, meditar y recapacitar sobre ella con particular cuidado y atención.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parar mientes |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [paˈɾaɾ ˈmjẽn̪t̪es] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “parar mientes” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for parar mientes is 13 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [paˈɾaɾ ˈmjẽn̪t̪es]. 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: "Considerar una cosa, meditar y recapacitar sobre ella con particular cuidado y atención.".
No misspelling variants are generated for parar mientes 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 parar mientes, spelled P-A-R-A-R- -M-I-E-N-T-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Considerar una cosa, meditar y recapacitar sobre ella con particular cuidado y atención.
Synonyms
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 “parar mientes”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-A-R-A-R- -M-I-E-N-T-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [paˈɾaɾ ˈmjẽn̪t̪es] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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