tal vez

/[ˈt̪al ˈβ̞es]/ phrase

Letters

7 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

tal vez is aSpanishphrase. It means: Úsase para denotar que lo que se expresa es posible, pero no cierto. Pronounced [ˈt̪al ˈβ̞es].

Key facts for tal vez
PropertyValue
Headwordtal vez
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈt̪al ˈβ̞es]
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

tal vez 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 tal vez is 7 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪al ˈβ̞es]. 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: "Úsase para denotar que lo que se expresa es posible, pero no cierto.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for tal vez 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 tal vez, spelled T-A-L- -V-E-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Úsase para denotar que lo que se expresa es posible, pero no cierto.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tal vez"?
"tal vez" is spelled T-A-L- -V-E-Z. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈt̪al ˈβ̞es].
What does "tal vez" mean?
As a phrase, "tal vez" means: Úsase para denotar que lo que se expresa es posible, pero no cierto.
How do you pronounce "tal vez"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tal vez" is [ˈt̪al ˈβ̞es]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tal vez" come from?
"tal vez" 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.