prestar atención

/[pɾesˈt̪aɾ at̪ẽnˈsjõn]/ phrase

Letters

16 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

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prestar atención is aSpanishphrase. It means: Dirigir los sentidos y facultades mentales hacia un asunto en específico. Pronounced [pɾesˈt̪aɾ at̪ẽnˈsjõn].

Key facts for prestar atención
PropertyValue
Headwordprestar atención
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[pɾesˈt̪aɾ at̪ẽnˈsjõn]
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

prestar atención 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 prestar atención is 16 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pɾesˈt̪aɾ at̪ẽnˈsjõn]. 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: "Dirigir los sentidos y facultades mentales hacia un asunto en específico.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for prestar atención 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 prestar atención, spelled P-R-E-S-T-A-R- -A-T-E-N-C-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dirigir los sentidos y facultades mentales hacia un asunto en específico.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prestar atención"?
"prestar atención" is spelled P-R-E-S-T-A-R- -A-T-E-N-C-I-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [pɾesˈt̪aɾ at̪ẽnˈsjõn].
What does "prestar atención" mean?
As a phrase, "prestar atención" means: Dirigir los sentidos y facultades mentales hacia un asunto en específico.
How do you pronounce "prestar atención"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "prestar atención" is [pɾesˈt̪aɾ at̪ẽnˈsjõn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "prestar atención" 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.