a pesar de

/\ˈa pe.saɾ ðe\/ prep

Letters

10 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

a pesar de is aFrenchprep. It means: Bien que. Pronounced \ˈa pe.saɾ ðe\.

Key facts for a pesar de
PropertyValue
Headworda pesar de
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPrep
IPA\ˈa pe.saɾ ðe\
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

a pesar de is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for a pesar de is 10 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈa pe.saɾ ðe\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for a pesar de in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French 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 French form is a pesar de, spelled A- -P-E-S-A-R- -D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Bien que.
  2. 2
    Malgré.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "a pesar de"?
"a pesar de" is spelled A- -P-E-S-A-R- -D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈa pe.saɾ ðe\.
What does "a pesar de" mean?
As a prep, "a pesar de" means: Bien que.
How do you pronounce "a pesar de"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "a pesar de" is \ˈa pe.saɾ ðe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "a pesar de" 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.