por lo tanto

/[poɾ lo ˈt̪ãn̪t̪o]/ phrase

Letters

12 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

por lo tanto is aSpanishphrase. It means: Por ende, en consecuencia, por eso, por tal razón, dado que, por consiguiente, como resultado, por el motivo o las razones antes mencionadas, a causa de lo que antes se ha dicho. Pronounced [poɾ lo ˈt̪ãn̪t̪o].

Key facts for por lo tanto
PropertyValue
Headwordpor lo tanto
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[poɾ lo ˈt̪ãn̪t̪o]
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

por lo tanto 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 lo tanto is 12 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [poɾ lo ˈt̪ãn̪t̪o]. 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: "Por ende, en consecuencia, por eso, por tal razón, dado que, por consiguiente, como resultado, por el motivo o las razones antes mencionadas, a causa de lo que antes se ha dicho.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for por lo tanto 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 lo tanto, spelled P-O-R- -L-O- -T-A-N-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Por ende, en consecuencia, por eso, por tal razón, dado que, por consiguiente, como resultado, por el motivo o las razones antes mencionadas, a causa de lo que antes se ha dicho.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "por lo tanto"?
"por lo tanto" is spelled P-O-R- -L-O- -T-A-N-T-O. The IPA pronunciation is [poɾ lo ˈt̪ãn̪t̪o].
What does "por lo tanto" mean?
As a phrase, "por lo tanto" means: Por ende, en consecuencia, por eso, por tal razón, dado que, por consiguiente, como resultado, por el motivo o las razones antes mencionadas, a causa de lo que antes se ha dicho.
How do you pronounce "por lo tanto"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "por lo tanto" is [poɾ lo ˈt̪ãn̪t̪o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "por lo tanto" come from?
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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.