acercar
[aseɾˈkaɾ]
The verdict
“acercar” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #14,999. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,999
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poner más cerca o menos lejos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-acercar · acercar · Spanish
acercar · rank #14,999 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,999
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH acercando
Nearest frequency peer: acercando (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “acercar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- acelerado
acelerado
85,005 corpus weight
- acera
acera
85,004 corpus weight
- acercando
acercando
85,003 corpus weight
- acercar
acercar
85,002 corpus weight
- act
act
85,001 corpus weight
- aguanto
aguanto
85,000 corpus weight
What this shows “acercar” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acercar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [aseɾˈkaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,999 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “acercar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around acercar (IPA [aseɾˈkaɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,999 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for acercar, with forms such as "accercar", "acecrar", and "aceracr". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "acercó", "acordar", "acertar", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is acercar, spelled A-C-E-R-C-A-R.
Definition
- 1Poner más cerca o menos lejos.
- 2Llevar a una persona, generalmente en el automóvil, a un lugar que le queda en el camino a quien lo lleva.
- 3Entregarle alguien a uno un objeto que tiene más próximo.
- 4Poner una cosa junto a otra.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how acercar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Las Olimpiadas acercan los pueblos.
Yo voy en la misma dirección, sube, yo te acerco.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- accercar
- acecrar
- aceracr
- acercarr
- acerccar
- acercra
- acerrcar
- acrecar
- aecrcar
- asercar
- caercar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of acercar - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "acercar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).