parce que

/[paʁ.s(ə) kə]/ phrase

Letters

9 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

parce que is aSpanishphrase. It means: Porque (como causa, explicación o motivación). Pronounced [paʁ.s(ə) kə].

Key facts for parce que
PropertyValue
Headwordparce que
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[paʁ.s(ə) kə]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

parce que is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for parce que is 9 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [paʁ.s(ə) kə]. 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: "Porque (como causa, explicación o motivación).".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for parce que in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 parce que, spelled P-A-R-C-E- -Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Porque (como causa, explicación o motivación).

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "parce que"?
"parce que" is spelled P-A-R-C-E- -Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is [paʁ.s(ə) kə].
What does "parce que" mean?
As a phrase, "parce que" means: Porque (como causa, explicación o motivación).
How do you pronounce "parce que"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "parce que" is [paʁ.s(ə) kə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "parce que" come from?
"parce que" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.