adormitar
[að̞oɾmiˈt̪aɾ]
The verdict
“adormitar” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Infinitivo de adormitarse (verbo pronominal). :*Uso: admite doble sintaxis: «se va a adormitar» o «va a adormitarse».
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adormitar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [að̞oɾmiˈt̪aɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “adormitar” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for adormitar is 9 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [að̞oɾmiˈt̪aɾ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Infinitivo de adormitarse (verbo pronominal). :*Uso: admite doble sintaxis: «se va a adormitar» o «va a adormitarse».".
No misspelling variants are generated for adormitar in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 adormitar, spelled A-D-O-R-M-I-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1Infinitivo de adormitarse (verbo pronominal). :*Uso: admite doble sintaxis: «se va a adormitar» o «va a adormitarse».
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “adormitar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-D-O-R-M-I-T-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [að̞oɾmiˈt̪aɾ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.