adornar
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#32,474
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
adornar is aSpanishverb. It means: Engalanar, embellecer con adornos. Pronounced [að̞oɾˈnaɾ]. Often confused with adorno and aportar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adornar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [að̞oɾˈnaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,474 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for adornar is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [að̞oɾˈnaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #32,474 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.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 adornar, with forms such as "addornar", "adonrar", and "adoranr". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "adorno", "aportar", "ahorrar", 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 adornar, spelled A-D-O-R-N-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Engalanar, embellecer con adornos.
- 2Servir para embellecer.
- 3Describir a una persona atribuyéndole virtudes o características positivas.
- 4Enaltecer los atributos o características a una persona.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: addornar,adonrar,adoranr,adornarr,adornnar,adornra,adorrnar,adronar,aodrnar,daornar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for adornar
Misspelling Variants of "adornar"
Frequency rank: #32,474 in Spanish
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