virar por avante
[biˈɾaɾ poɾ aˈβ̞ãn̪t̪e]
The verdict
“virar por avante” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Cambiar el rumbo pasando por la línea de dirección del viento pero orzando, en vez de hacerlo derivando como es en la virada por redondo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | virar por avante |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [biˈɾaɾ poɾ aˈβ̞ãn̪t̪e] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “virar por avante” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for virar por avante is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [biˈɾaɾ poɾ aˈβ̞ãn̪t̪e]. 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: "Cambiar el rumbo pasando por la línea de dirección del viento pero orzando, en vez de hacerlo derivando como es en la virada por redondo.".
No misspelling variants are generated for virar por avante 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 virar por avante, spelled V-I-R-A-R- -P-O-R- -A-V-A-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cambiar el rumbo pasando por la línea de dirección del viento pero orzando, en vez de hacerlo derivando como es en la virada por redondo.
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Using “virar por avante”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is V-I-R-A-R- -P-O-R- -A-V-A-N-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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