pedir prestado
[peˈð̞iɾ pɾesˈt̪að̞o]
The verdict
“pedir prestado” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Solicitar a una persona que le otorgue algún bien con el compromiso de restituírselo una vez finalizado el uso que se le da.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pedir prestado |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [peˈð̞iɾ pɾesˈt̪að̞o] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pedir prestado” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pedir prestado is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [peˈð̞iɾ pɾesˈt̪að̞o]. 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 pedir prestado 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 pedir prestado, spelled P-E-D-I-R- -P-R-E-S-T-A-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Solicitar a una persona que le otorgue algún bien con el compromiso de restituírselo una vez finalizado el uso que se le da.
- 2Demandar cierta cantidad de dinero bajo el compromiso de pagarlo a término.
- 3Sumar decenas a una unidad en la resta cuando un dígito en el minuendo es menor que el del sustraendo o cuando se efectúa una división con dos o más cifras en el divisor.
This word in other languages
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Using “pedir prestado”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-E-D-I-R- -P-R-E-S-T-A-D-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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