apenar
[apeˈnaɾ]
The verdict
“apenar” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Producir o causar pena, aflicción, tristeza.
Corpus desk
Index ES-apenar · apenar · Spanish
apenar · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apenar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [apeˈnaɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “apenar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
apenar is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [apeˈnaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
apenar doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is apenar, spelled A-P-E-N-A-R.
Definition
- 1Producir o causar pena, aflicción, tristeza.
- 2Causar timidez, pundonor, temor de quedar mal ante los demás o ante uno mismo, vergüenza.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.