acariciar
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,287
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
acariciar is aSpanishverb. It means: Pasar suavemente la mano o los dedos sobre el cuerpo de una persona o animal, como demostración de afecto. Pronounced [akaɾiˈsjaɾ]. Often confused with avaricia and acaricia.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acariciar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [akaɾiˈsjaɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #26,287 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for acariciar is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [akaɾiˈsjaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #26,287 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.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for acariciar, with forms such as "aacriciar", "acairciar", and "acarciiar". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "avaricia", "acaricia", "acariciaba", 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 acariciar, spelled A-C-A-R-I-C-I-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pasar suavemente la mano o los dedos sobre el cuerpo de una persona o animal, como demostración de afecto.
- 2Pasar suavemente la mano o los dedos sobre una superficie, tocar con suavidad alguna cosa, rozar alguna cosa a otra con suavidad.
- 3Producir alguna cosa suave una sensación agradable.
- 4Sentir placer con una idea o propósito que se piensa realizar.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aacriciar,acairciar,acarciiar,acaricair,acaricciar,acariciarr,acaricira,acariicar,acarisiar,acarriciar,accariciar,acraiciar,caariciar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for acariciar
Misspelling Variants of "acariciar"
Frequency rank: #26,287 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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