tant pis

/[tɑ̃ pi]/ phrase

Letters

8 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

tant pis is aSpanishphrase. It means: Ni modo, que lástima. Pronounced [tɑ̃ pi].

Key facts for tant pis
PropertyValue
Headwordtant pis
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[tɑ̃ pi]
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

tant pis is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for tant pis is 8 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [tɑ̃ pi]. 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: "Ni modo, que lástima.".

No misspelling variants are generated for tant pis 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 tant pis, spelled T-A-N-T- -P-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ni modo, que lástima.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tant pis"?
"tant pis" is spelled T-A-N-T- -P-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is [tɑ̃ pi].
What does "tant pis" mean?
As a phrase, "tant pis" means: Ni modo, que lástima.
How do you pronounce "tant pis"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tant pis" is [tɑ̃ pi]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tant pis" come from?
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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.