apegarse
[apeˈɣ̞aɾse]
The verdict
“apegarse” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #60,537 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,537
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tomar afición, apego, afecto, gran cariño o inclinación por alguien o algo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-apegarse · apegarse · Spanish
apegarse · rank #60,537 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,537
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH apaño
Nearest frequency peer: apaño (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “apegarse”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- apaleado
apaleado
39,467 corpus weight
- apartaron
apartaron
39,466 corpus weight
- apaño
apaño
39,465 corpus weight
- apegarse
apegarse
39,464 corpus weight
- aportaría
aportaría
39,463 corpus weight
- aprehendidos
aprehendidos
39,461 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “apegarse” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apegarse |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [apeˈɣ̞aɾse] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,537 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “apegarse” en español
Rare enough to double-check
apegarse is uncommon Spanish at frequency #60,537 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [apeˈɣ̞aɾse]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tomar afición, apego, afecto, gran cariño o inclinación por alguien o algo.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for apegarse, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is apegarse, spelled A-P-E-G-A-R-S-E.
Definition
- 1Tomar afición, apego, afecto, gran cariño o inclinación por alguien o algo.
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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