tout au plus
/tu.t‿o plys/
The verdict
“tout au plus” 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
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Por lo más, en el mejor de los casos, como mucho, al máximo, a lo sumo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tout au plus |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | /tu.t‿o plys/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tout au plus” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tout au plus is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /tu.t‿o plys/. 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: "Por lo más, en el mejor de los casos, como mucho, al máximo, a lo sumo.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tout au plus 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 tout au plus, spelled T-O-U-T- -A-U- -P-L-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Por lo más, en el mejor de los casos, como mucho, al máximo, a lo sumo.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
Cite this page
Free to reuse with attribution (CC BY-SA). Copy the citation:
PlainSpell, “tout au plus, Spanish word data” (May 6, 2026). Derived from Wiktionary (kaikki.org, CC BY-SA) and an open word-frequency list. https://plainspell.com/es/palabra/tout-au-plus
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "tout au plus"?
What does "tout au plus" mean?
How do you pronounce "tout au plus"?
What language does "tout au plus" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Using “tout au plus”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is T-O-U-T- -A-U- -P-L-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /tu.t‿o plys/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter T in our Spanish index: