acercarse
[aseɾˈkaɾse]
The verdict
“acercarse” has 15 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #6,136. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,136
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ponerse más cerca o menos lejos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-acercarse · acercarse · Spanish
acercarse · rank #6,136 · 15 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,136
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH ángulo
Nearest frequency peer: ángulo (-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 “acercarse”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- violenta
violenta
93,868 corpus weight
- Álvarez
Álvarez
93,867 corpus weight
- ángulo
ángulo
93,866 corpus weight
- acercarse
acercarse
93,865 corpus weight
- actuando
actuando
93,864 corpus weight
- Andrea
Andrea
93,863 corpus weight
What this shows “acercarse” 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 | acercarse |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [aseɾˈkaɾse] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #6,136 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “acercarse”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around acercarse (IPA [aseɾˈkaɾse]), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,136 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for acercarse, with forms such as "accercarse", "acecrarse", and "aceracrse". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "acercas", "acordarse", "aferrarse", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is acercarse, spelled A-C-E-R-C-A-R-S-E.
Definition
- 1Ponerse más cerca o menos lejos.
- 2Ir a un lugar no muy distante de donde se está, o pasar a un lugar que queda en el camino hacia donde realmente se va.
- 3Ir hacia una persona.
- 4Aproximarse mucho o en exceso.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how acercarse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Al regreso me acercaré a la farmacia.
Me acerqué a ella para saludarla.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- accercarse
- acecrarse
- aceracrse
- acercarce
- acercares
- acercarrse
- acercarsse
- acercasre
- acerccarse
- acercrase
- acerrcarse
- acrecarse
- aecrcarse
- asercarse
- caercarse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of acercarse - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).