adoctrinar

/[að̞okt̪ɾiˈnaɾ]/ verb

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#61,284

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

adoctrinar is aSpanishverb. It means: Inculcarle a alguien determinadas ideas o manera de pensar. Pronounced [að̞okt̪ɾiˈnaɾ].

Key facts for adoctrinar
PropertyValue
Headwordadoctrinar
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA[að̞okt̪ɾiˈnaɾ]
Letters10
Frequency rank#61,284
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of adoctrinar in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for adoctrinar is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [að̞okt̪ɾiˈnaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #61,284 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Inculcarle a alguien determinadas ideas o manera de pensar.".

No misspelling variants are generated for adoctrinar in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is adoctrinar, spelled A-D-O-C-T-R-I-N-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Inculcarle a alguien determinadas ideas o manera de pensar.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #61,284 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "adoctrinar"?
"adoctrinar" is spelled A-D-O-C-T-R-I-N-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is [að̞okt̪ɾiˈnaɾ].
What does "adoctrinar" mean?
As a verb, "adoctrinar" means: Inculcarle a alguien determinadas ideas o manera de pensar.
How do you pronounce "adoctrinar"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "adoctrinar" is [að̞okt̪ɾiˈnaɾ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "adoctrinar" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.