adoptar
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,849
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
adoptar is aSpanishverb. It means: Llevar a cabo una adopción, el acto de recibir a alguien en una relación de parentesco (como hijo o pariente propios), con los requisitos legales del caso. Pronounced [að̞opˈt̪aɾ]. It ranks #4,849 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with anotar and adorar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adoptar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [að̞opˈt̪aɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,849 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for adoptar is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [að̞opˈt̪aɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,849 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for adoptar, with forms such as "addoptar", "adopatr", and "adopptar". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "anotar", "adorar", "agotar", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 adoptar, spelled A-D-O-P-T-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Llevar a cabo una adopción, el acto de recibir a alguien en una relación de parentesco (como hijo o pariente propios), con los requisitos legales del caso.
- 2Elegir y asumir o aceptar como propias ideas, modas o métodos creados por otros.
- 3Tomar una resolución o acuerdo deliberados y tras un proceso de decisión consciente.
- 4Tomar o adquirir determinada forma, configuración, característica o estructura.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: addoptar,adopatr,adopptar,adoptarr,adoptra,adopttar,adotpar,adpotar,aodptar,daoptar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for adoptar
Misspelling Variants of "adoptar"
Frequency rank: #4,849 in Spanish
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