apresar
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#50,703
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
apresar is aSpanishverb. It means: Atrapar con garras o colmillos. Pronounced [apɾeˈsaɾ].
| 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) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for apresar is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [apɾeˈsaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #50,703 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for apresar 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 apresar, spelled A-P-R-E-S-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Atrapar con garras o colmillos.
- 2Atrapar a un prisionero, un preso o una presa.
- 3Apoderarse por la fuerza de una embarcación.
Synonyms
Frequency rank: #50,703 in Spanish
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