aguantar
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,578
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
aguantar is aSpanishverb. It means: Mantenerse en una posición o actitud a pesar de contratiempos o embates. Pronounced [aɣ̞wãn̪ˈt̪aɾ]. It ranks #5,578 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with aguante and apuntar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aguantar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [aɣ̞wãn̪ˈt̪aɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,578 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for aguantar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aɣ̞wãn̪ˈt̪aɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,578 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for aguantar, with forms such as "agauntar", "agguantar", and "aguanatr". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "aguante", "apuntar", "aguanto", 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 aguantar, spelled A-G-U-A-N-T-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mantenerse en una posición o actitud a pesar de contratiempos o embates.
- 2Resistir con fortaleza o vigor pesos, impulsos, trabajos, etc.
- 3Adelantar el diestro el pie izquierdo, en la suerte de matar, para citar al toro, conservando esta postura hasta dar la estocada, y resistiendo cuanto le es posible la embestida, de la cual se libra con el movimiento de la muleta y con la huida.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agauntar,agguantar,aguanatr,aguanntar,aguantarr,aguantra,aguanttar,aguatnar,agunatar,augantar,gauantar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for aguantar
Misspelling Variants of "aguantar"
Frequency rank: #5,578 in Spanish
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