arrebatar
[areβ̞aˈt̪aɾ]
The verdict
“arrebatar” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #32,969. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,969
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tomar por la fuerza un objeto de manos de otro.
Corpus desk
Index ES-arrebatar · arrebatar · Spanish
arrebatar · rank #32,969 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,969
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH Armo
Nearest frequency peer: Armo (-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 “arrebatar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- arcoíris
arcoíris
67,035 corpus weight
- Arkansas
Arkansas
67,034 corpus weight
- Armo
Armo
67,033 corpus weight
- arrebatar
arrebatar
67,032 corpus weight
- arándanos
arándanos
67,030 corpus weight
- asaltan
asaltan
67,029 corpus weight
What this shows “arrebatar” 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 | arrebatar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [areβ̞aˈt̪aɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #32,969 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “arrebatar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around arrebatar (IPA [areβ̞aˈt̪aɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #32,969 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for arrebatar, with forms such as "arebatar", "arerbatar", and "arrbeatar". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "arrestar", "arrebato", "arrebatos", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented 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 arrebatar, spelled A-R-R-E-B-A-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1Tomar por la fuerza un objeto de manos de otro.
- 2Apropiarse por la fuerza de algo.
- 3Atraer el foco de atención.
- 4Conmover, alterar el espíritu.
- 5Dicho del calor: Agostar las mieses antes de tiempo.
- 6Quemar la carne por fuera y dejarla cruda por dentro, debido a la aplicación de calor excesivo en la cocción.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how arrebatar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Su hijo Leif Erikson también está en la lista de vikingos célebres por haber descubierto América antes que Cristóbal Colón, a la que hay que añadir los normandos Guillermo el Conquistador, duque de Normandía y posteriormente rey de Inglaterra, y Robert Guiscard, que arrebató Sicilia a los árabes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arebatar
- arerbatar
- arrbeatar
- arreabtar
- arrebaatr
- arrebatarr
- arrebatra
- arrebattar
- arrebbatar
- arrebtaar
- arrevatar
- rarebatar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of arrebatar - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
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