angostar

/[ãŋgosˈt̪aɾ]/ verb

Letters

8 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

angostar is aSpanishverb. It means: Disminuir la anchura (la menor de las dimensiones de una figura plana) o la amplitud de algo; hacer más angosto o estrecho. Pronounced [ãŋgosˈt̪aɾ].

Key facts for angostar
PropertyValue
Headwordangostar
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ãŋgosˈt̪aɾ]
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

angostar is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for angostar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ãŋgosˈt̪aɾ]. 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: "Disminuir la anchura (la menor de las dimensiones de una figura plana) o la amplitud de algo; hacer más angosto o estrecho.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for angostar in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 angostar, spelled A-N-G-O-S-T-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Disminuir la anchura (la menor de las dimensiones de una figura plana) o la amplitud de algo; hacer más angosto o estrecho.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "angostar"?
"angostar" is spelled A-N-G-O-S-T-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is [ãŋgosˈt̪aɾ].
What does "angostar" mean?
As a verb, "angostar" means: Disminuir la anchura (la menor de las dimensiones de una figura plana) o la amplitud de algo; hacer más angosto o estrecho.
How do you pronounce "angostar"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "angostar" is [ãŋgosˈt̪aɾ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "angostar" come from?
"angostar" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.