apropiar
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#89,557
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
apropiar is aSpanishverb. It means: Adecuar una cosa a otra: el profesor de arte dramático nos enseña a apropiar la voz al gesto. Pronounced [apɾoˈpjaɾ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apropiar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [apɾoˈpjaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,557 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for apropiar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [apɾoˈpjaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #89,557 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for apropiar 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 apropiar, spelled A-P-R-O-P-I-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Adecuar una cosa a otra: el profesor de arte dramático nos enseña a apropiar la voz al gesto.
- 2apropiarse Adueñarse de algo que pertenece a otra persona, especialmente si es de forma indebida: siempre se apropia de las ideas e iniciativas que se me ocurren a mí. apoderarse.
Frequency rank: #89,557 in Spanish
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