achicar
[at͡ʃiˈkaɾ]
The verdict
“achicar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #58,956 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,956
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hacer más pequeño.
Corpus desk
Index ES-achicar · achicar · Spanish
achicar · rank #58,956 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,956
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH acostumbraron
Nearest frequency peer: acostumbraron (+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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “achicar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- abducción
abducción
41,048 corpus weight
- acalorado
acalorado
41,047 corpus weight
- achicar
achicar
41,045 corpus weight
- acostumbrar…
acostumbraron
41,044 corpus weight
- acotación
acotación
41,043 corpus weight
- acreditacio…
acreditaciones
41,042 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “achicar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | achicar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [at͡ʃiˈkaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,956 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “achicar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
achicar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #58,956 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [at͡ʃiˈkaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for achicar in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 achicar, spelled A-C-H-I-C-A-R.
Definition
- 1Hacer más pequeño.
- 2Expulsar o sacar el agua del interior de una embarcación.
- 3Descorazonar, reducir el orgullo, humillar.
This word in other languages
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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