qué te importa

/[ˈke t̪e ĩmˈpoɾt̪a]/ phrase

The verdict

“qué te importa” 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
14
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Manera de decirle a alguien que no se entrometa en asuntos que no le incumben.

Key facts for qué te importa
PropertyValue
Headwordqué te importa
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈke t̪e ĩmˈpoɾt̪a]
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “qué te importa” sits in Spanish frequency

qué te importa falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Spanish words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for qué te importa is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈke t̪e ĩmˈpoɾt̪a]. 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: "Manera de decirle a alguien que no se entrometa en asuntos que no le incumben.".

No misspelling variants are generated for qué te importa 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 qué te importa, spelled Q-U-É- -T-E- -I-M-P-O-R-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Manera de decirle a alguien que no se entrometa en asuntos que no le incumben.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "qué te importa"?
"qué te importa" is spelled Q-U-É- -T-E- -I-M-P-O-R-T-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈke t̪e ĩmˈpoɾt̪a].
What does "qué te importa" mean?
As a phrase, "qué te importa" means: Manera de decirle a alguien que no se entrometa en asuntos que no le incumben.
How do you pronounce "qué te importa"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "qué te importa" is [ˈke t̪e ĩmˈpoɾt̪a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "qué te importa" come from?
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Using “qué te importa”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Spanish spelling is Q-U-É- -T-E- -I-M-P-O-R-T-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [ˈke t̪e ĩmˈpoɾt̪a] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.