tener en cuenta

/[t̪eˈneɾ ẽŋ ˈkwẽn̪t̪a]/ phrase

Letters

15 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

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Confusables

0

similar word pairs

tener en cuenta is aSpanishphrase. It means: Considerar a alguien o algo. Pronounced [t̪eˈneɾ ẽŋ ˈkwẽn̪t̪a].

Key facts for tener en cuenta
PropertyValue
Headwordtener en cuenta
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[t̪eˈneɾ ẽŋ ˈkwẽn̪t̪a]
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

tener en cuenta 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 tener en cuenta is 15 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪eˈneɾ ẽŋ ˈkwẽn̪t̪a]. 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: "Considerar a alguien o algo.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for tener en cuenta 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 tener en cuenta, spelled T-E-N-E-R- -E-N- -C-U-E-N-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Considerar a alguien o algo.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tener en cuenta"?
"tener en cuenta" is spelled T-E-N-E-R- -E-N- -C-U-E-N-T-A. The IPA pronunciation is [t̪eˈneɾ ẽŋ ˈkwẽn̪t̪a].
What does "tener en cuenta" mean?
As a phrase, "tener en cuenta" means: Considerar a alguien o algo.
How do you pronounce "tener en cuenta"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tener en cuenta" is [t̪eˈneɾ ẽŋ ˈkwẽn̪t̪a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tener en cuenta" come from?
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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.