perder de vista
[peɾˈð̞eɾ ð̞e ˈβ̞ist̪a]
The verdict
“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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dejar de ver una persona o cosa por haberse alejado o no alcanzar a distinguirla.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perder de vista |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [peɾˈð̞eɾ ð̞e ˈβ̞ist̪a] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “perder de vista” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for perder de vista is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [peɾˈð̞eɾ ð̞e ˈβ̞ist̪a]. 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: "Dejar de ver una persona o cosa por haberse alejado o no alcanzar a distinguirla.".
No misspelling variants are generated for 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 perder de vista, spelled 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
- 1Dejar de ver una persona o cosa por haberse alejado o no alcanzar a distinguirla.
This word in other languages
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-E-R-D-E-R- -D-E- -V-I-S-T-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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