apresar
[apɾeˈsaɾ]
The verdict
“apresar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #50,703 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,703
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Atrapar con garras o colmillos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-apresar · apresar · Spanish
apresar · rank #50,703 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,703
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH aprecias
Nearest frequency peer: aprecias (-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 “apresar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- apostados
apostados
49,301 corpus weight
- apoyes
apoyes
49,300 corpus weight
- aprecias
aprecias
49,299 corpus weight
- apresar
apresar
49,298 corpus weight
- arbitraried…
arbitrariedades
49,297 corpus weight
- ark
ark
49,296 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “apresar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apresar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [apɾeˈsaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,703 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “apresar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
apresar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #50,703 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [apɾeˈsaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for apresar in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 apresar, spelled A-P-R-E-S-A-R.
Definition
- 1Atrapar con garras o colmillos.
- 2Atrapar a un prisionero, un preso o una presa.
- 3Apoderarse por la fuerza de una embarcación.
Synonyms
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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