phrasal verb
[ˈfɾejsal ˈβ̞eɾβ̞]
The verdict
“phrasal verb” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Un verbo que según el adverbio y/o preposición que lo acompañe, cambia de significado.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | phrasal verb |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfɾejsal ˈβ̞eɾβ̞] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “phrasal verb” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for phrasal verb is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfɾejsal ˈβ̞eɾβ̞]. 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: "Un verbo que según el adverbio y/o preposición que lo acompañe, cambia de significado.".
No misspelling variants are generated for phrasal verb 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 phrasal verb, spelled P-H-R-A-S-A-L- -V-E-R-B, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Un verbo que según el adverbio y/o preposición que lo acompañe, cambia de significado.
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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 one correct Spanish spelling is P-H-R-A-S-A-L- -V-E-R-B - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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