por el amor de Dios
[poɾ el aˈmoɾ ð̞e ˈð̞jos]
The verdict
“por el amor de Dios” 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
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Expresión que denota ruego, enojo o sorpresa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | por el amor de Dios |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [poɾ el aˈmoɾ ð̞e ˈð̞jos] |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “por el amor de Dios” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for por el amor de Dios is 19 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [poɾ el aˈmoɾ ð̞e ˈð̞jos]. 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: "Expresión que denota ruego, enojo o sorpresa.".
No misspelling variants are generated for por el amor de Dios 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 por el amor de Dios, spelled P-O-R- -E-L- -A-M-O-R- -D-E- -D-I-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Expresión que denota ruego, enojo o sorpresa.
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-O-R- -E-L- -A-M-O-R- -D-E- -D-I-O-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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