s'il vous plaît

/[s‿il vu plɛ]/ phrase

Letters

15 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

s'il vous plaît is aSpanishphrase. It means: Por favor (ya sea a una persona o varias). Pronounced [s‿il vu plɛ].

Key facts for s'il vous plaît
PropertyValue
Headwords'il vous plaît
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[s‿il vu plɛ]
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

s'il vous plaît 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 s'il vous plaît is 15 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [s‿il vu plɛ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for s'il vous plaît 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 s'il vous plaît, spelled S-'-I-L- -V-O-U-S- -P-L-A-Î-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Por favor (ya sea a una persona o varias).
  2. 2
    He aquí.
  3. 3
    ¡Miércoles!

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "s'il vous plaît"?
"s'il vous plaît" is spelled S-'-I-L- -V-O-U-S- -P-L-A-Î-T. The IPA pronunciation is [s‿il vu plɛ].
What does "s'il vous plaît" mean?
As a phrase, "s'il vous plaît" means: Por favor (ya sea a una persona o varias).
How do you pronounce "s'il vous plaît"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "s'il vous plaît" is [s‿il vu plɛ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "s'il vous plaît" come from?
"s'il vous plaît" 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.