acortar
[akoɾˈt̪aɾ]
The verdict
“acortar” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #26,683. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,683
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hacer más corto. Disminuir en longitud, extensión, duración, tiempo o cantidad.
Corpus desk
Index ES-acortar · acortar · Spanish
acortar · rank #26,683 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,683
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH acosado
Nearest frequency peer: acosado (+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 “acortar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- abrirán
abrirán
73,321 corpus weight
- absolutas
absolutas
73,320 corpus weight
- acortar
acortar
73,318 corpus weight
- acosado
acosado
73,317 corpus weight
- adiestramie…
adiestramiento
73,316 corpus weight
- alberca
alberca
73,315 corpus weight
What this shows “acortar” 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 | acortar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [akoɾˈt̪aɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #26,683 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “acortar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around acortar (IPA [akoɾˈt̪aɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #26,683 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for acortar, with forms such as "accortar", "acoratr", and "acorrtar". 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, "aorta", "aporta", "Acosta", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 acortar, spelled A-C-O-R-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1Hacer más corto. Disminuir en longitud, extensión, duración, tiempo o cantidad.
- 2En particular, hacer más corto (menos largo) un camino; encontrar una ruta que tome menos tiempo recorrer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how acortar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cinema Paradiso originalmente duraba 155 minutos pero debido al bajo éxito que obtuvo en Italia el metraje se acortó a 123 minutos para su estreno mundial.
Entre otras medidas, posibilitó la reelección presidencial y acortó su mandato de 6 a 4 años.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- accortar
- acoratr
- acorrtar
- acortarr
- acortra
- acorttar
- acotrar
- acrotar
- aocrtar
- caortar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of acortar - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).