perder el año
[peɾˈð̞eɾ el ˈaɲo]
The verdict
“perder el año” 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
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dicho de un estudiante, que ha reprobado o suspendido todas las asignaturas de un curso lectivo y, por ende, no podrá ser promovido al siguiente teniendo que repetir automáticamente el mismo sin de...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perder el año |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [peɾˈð̞eɾ el ˈaɲo] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “perder el año” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for perder el año is 13 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [peɾˈð̞eɾ el ˈaɲo]. 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: "Dicho de un estudiante, que ha reprobado o suspendido todas las asignaturas de un curso lectivo y, por ende, no podrá ser promovido al siguiente teniendo que repetir automáticamente el mismo sin de...".
No misspelling variants are generated for perder el año 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 el año, spelled P-E-R-D-E-R- -E-L- -A-Ñ-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dicho de un estudiante, que ha reprobado o suspendido todas las asignaturas de un curso lectivo y, por ende, no podrá ser promovido al siguiente teniendo que repetir automáticamente el mismo sin derecho a revisión o reparación.
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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-E-R-D-E-R- -E-L- -A-Ñ-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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