arrancar
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,820
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
arrancar is aSpanishverb. It means: Superar a un rival en una contienda Pronounced [arãŋˈkaɾ]. It ranks #7,820 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with arranco and arrasar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arrancar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [arãŋˈkaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for arrancar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [arãŋˈkaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,820 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for arrancar, with forms such as "arancar", "ararncar", and "arracnar". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "arranco", "arrasar", "atracar", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 arrancar, spelled A-R-R-A-N-C-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Superar a un rival en una contienda
- 2Atacar violentamente
- 3Sacar de raíz
- 4Por extensión, desprender violentamente una parte de un todo
- 5Por extensión, apoderarse violentamente de algo que otro ase o sujeta
- 6Por extensión, obtener de alguien algo de lo que aquél no deseaba desprenderse
- 7Echar flema por la boca
- 8Por extensión, hacer salir alguna otra cosa de la boca, como el aliento o la voz
- 9Comenzar la construcción de un arco
- 10Tirar de un cabo a la leva
- 11Imprimir mayor velocidad a una embarcación
- 12Largar el ancla el fondo o desprenderse de éste la uña
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: arancar,ararncar,arracnar,arranacr,arrancarr,arranccar,arrancra,arranncar,arrnacar,rarancar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for arrancar
Misspelling Variants of "arrancar"
Frequency rank: #7,820 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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