acoplar
[akoˈplaɾ]
The verdict
“acoplar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #65,818 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,818
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unir dos elementos de manera que sus respectivas formas o composiciones los mantengan juntos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-acoplar · acoplar · Spanish
acoplar · rank #65,818 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,818
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH acomodación
Nearest frequency peer: acomodación (-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 “acoplar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- aceptase
aceptase
34,186 corpus weight
- acometidas
acometidas
34,185 corpus weight
- acomodación
acomodación
34,184 corpus weight
- acoplar
acoplar
34,183 corpus weight
- acorralada
acorralada
34,182 corpus weight
- acting
acting
34,180 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “acoplar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acoplar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [akoˈplaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,818 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “acoplar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
acoplar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #65,818 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [akoˈplaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
acoplar has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 acoplar, spelled A-C-O-P-L-A-R.
Definition
- 1Unir dos elementos de manera que sus respectivas formas o composiciones los mantengan juntos.
- 2Unir o parear dos animales para yunta o "tronco de tiro".
- 3Procurar la unión sexual de dos animales.
- 4Enganchar un vehículo a otro con el objeto de remolcarlo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how acoplar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Por lo tanto, el 17 de julio de 1975 un Apollo, encontrando un nuevo uso después de la cancelación del Apollo 18, se acopló a un Soyuz soviético en la misión Apollo-Soyuz para la que hubo que diseñar un módulo intermedio y acercar la tecnología de las dos naciones.
Utilizarán dos vehículos que despegarán por separado, el vehículo que transportará a la tripulación se acoplará primero a la Estación Espacial Internacional o ISS (International Space Station), donde se preparararán para la misión mientras el vehículo con el módulo lunar permanece en una órbita de aparcamiento alrededor de la Tierra.
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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