qué te importa
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | qué te importa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈke t̪e ĩmˈpoɾt̪a] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “qué te importa” sits in Spanish frequency
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
- 1Manera de decirle a alguien que no se entrometa en asuntos que no le incumben.
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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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