ablandar
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#62,769
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
ablandar is aSpanishverb. It means: Poner blanda una cosa. Pronounced [aβ̞lãn̪ˈd̪aɾ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ablandar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [aβ̞lãn̪ˈd̪aɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,769 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ablandar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aβ̞lãn̪ˈd̪aɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #62,769 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ablandar 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 ablandar, spelled A-B-L-A-N-D-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Poner blanda una cosa.
- 2Por extensión, atemperar o mitigar la fiereza, la ira o el enojo de alguno.
- 3Por extensión, reducir químicamente la dureza del agua
- 4Conducir un vehículo cuidadosamente, hasta que su mecánica haya tenido oportunidad de asentarse
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Frequency rank: #62,769 in Spanish
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