apretar
[apɾeˈt̪aɾ]
The verdict
“apretar” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #13,839. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,839
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Estrechar u oprimir algo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-apretar · apretar · Spanish
apretar · rank #13,839 · 10 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,839
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH aprueban
Nearest frequency peer: aprueban (+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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “apretar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- amenazan
amenazan
86,165 corpus weight
- andino
andino
86,164 corpus weight
- apretar
apretar
86,162 corpus weight
- aprueban
aprueban
86,161 corpus weight
- ascendencia
ascendencia
86,160 corpus weight
- asesinaron
asesinaron
86,159 corpus weight
What this shows “apretar” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apretar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [apɾeˈt̪aɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,839 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “apretar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around apretar (IPA [apɾeˈt̪aɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #13,839 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for apretar, with forms such as "apertar", "appretar", and "apreatr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "apretó", "apreté", "aprobar", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is apretar, spelled A-P-R-E-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1Estrechar u oprimir algo.
- 2Besar y tocar repetidamente a alguien con intención erótica.
- 3Amenazar.
- 4Instar con eficacia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how apretar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hechas, pues, estas prevenciones, no quiso aguardar más tiempo a poner en efeto su pensamiento, apretándole a ello la falta que él pensaba que hacía en el mundo su tardanza, según eran los agravios que pensaba deshacer, tuertos que enderezar, sinrazones que emendar, y abusos que mejorar y deudas que satisfacer.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apertar
- appretar
- apreatr
- apretarr
- apretra
- aprettar
- aprretar
- aprtear
- arpetar
- paretar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of apretar - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "apretar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).