aferrar
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#88,475
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
aferrar is aSpanishverb. It means: Agarrar, coger, prender, sujetar o asir con fuerza. Pronounced [afeˈraɾ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aferrar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [afeˈraɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,475 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for aferrar is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [afeˈraɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #88,475 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.
No misspelling variants are generated for aferrar 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 aferrar, spelled A-F-E-R-R-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Agarrar, coger, prender, sujetar o asir con fuerza.
- 2Recoger, plegar y asegurar o atar las velas a sus vergas, o los toldos, banderas o cualquier otra tela a sus respectivos cabos, nervios, etc.
- 3Atrapar, agarrar con el bichero u otro instrumento de garfio.
- 4Asegurar la embarcación en el puerto echando los ferros o anclas.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #88,475 in Spanish
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