abarcar
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,606
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
abarcar is aSpanishverb. It means: Ceñir con los brazos o con la mano alguna cosa. Pronounced [aβ̞aɾˈkaɾ]. Often confused with atacar and abordar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abarcar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [aβ̞aɾˈkaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,606 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for abarcar is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aβ̞aɾˈkaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #19,606 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for abarcar, with forms such as "aabrcar", "abacrar", and "abaracr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "atacar", "abordar", "agarrar", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 abarcar, spelled A-B-A-R-C-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ceñir con los brazos o con la mano alguna cosa.
- 2Comprender o encerrar dentro de sí.
- 3Tomar uno a su cargo muchas cosas o negocios a un tiempo.
- 4Rodear o dar un cerco a un pedazo de monte en que se presume estar la caza.
- 5Empollar.
- 6Acumular cosas y conservarlas en desmedro de los demás.
- 7Alcanzar a distinguir en torno a sí con la vista.
- 8Comprender o incluir en un espacio físico.
- 9Comprender o incluir en un periodo de tiempo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aabrcar,abacrar,abaracr,abarcarr,abarccar,abarcra,abarrcar,abbarcar,abracar,avarcar,baarcar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for abarcar
Misspelling Variants of "abarcar"
Frequency rank: #19,606 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter A in our Spanish index: