por favor

/[poɾ faˈβ̞oɾ]/ phrase

Letters

9 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

por favor is aSpanishphrase. It means: Expresión empleada para hacer una solicitud de manera amable o cortés. Pronounced [poɾ faˈβ̞oɾ].

Key facts for por favor
PropertyValue
Headwordpor favor
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[poɾ faˈβ̞oɾ]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

por favor is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for por favor is 9 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [poɾ faˈβ̞oɾ]. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for por favor in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 favor, spelled P-O-R- -F-A-V-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Expresión empleada para hacer una solicitud de manera amable o cortés.
  2. 2
    Expresión empleada para aceptar o rechazar una oferta.
  3. 3
    Expresión empleada para indicar molestia o impaciencia.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "por favor"?
"por favor" is spelled P-O-R- -F-A-V-O-R. The IPA pronunciation is [poɾ faˈβ̞oɾ].
What does "por favor" mean?
As a phrase, "por favor" means: Expresión empleada para hacer una solicitud de manera amable o cortés.
How do you pronounce "por favor"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "por favor" is [poɾ faˈβ̞oɾ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "por favor" come from?
"por favor" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.