quand même

/[kɑ̃ mɛm]/ adv

Letters

10 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

quand même is anSpanishadv. It means: Sin embargo. Pronounced [kɑ̃ mɛm].

Key facts for quand même
PropertyValue
Headwordquand même
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechAdv
IPA[kɑ̃ mɛm]
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

quand même 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 quand même is 10 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kɑ̃ mɛm]. 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: "Sin embargo.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for quand même 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 quand même, spelled Q-U-A-N-D- -M-Ê-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sin embargo.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quand même"?
"quand même" is spelled Q-U-A-N-D- -M-Ê-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is [kɑ̃ mɛm].
What does "quand même" mean?
As an adv, "quand même" means: Sin embargo.
How do you pronounce "quand même"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quand même" is [kɑ̃ mɛm]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "quand même" come from?
"quand même" 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.