atender
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,672
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
atender is aSpanishverb. It means: Poner atención, tener los sentidos puestos para captar o comprender algo. :*Sinónimos: escuchar, abrir los ojos, aguzar los oídos, estar a la mira, estar pendiente de, prestar atención, tener puest... Pronounced [at̪ẽn̪ˈd̪eɾ]. It ranks #3,672 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with ateneo and Atenea.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | atender |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [at̪ẽn̪ˈd̪eɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,672 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for atender is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [at̪ẽn̪ˈd̪eɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,672 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 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 atender, with forms such as "aetnder", "atedner", and "atendder". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "ateneo", "Atenea", "atente", 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 atender, spelled A-T-E-N-D-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Poner atención, tener los sentidos puestos para captar o comprender algo. :*Sinónimos: escuchar, abrir los ojos, aguzar los oídos, estar a la mira, estar pendiente de, prestar atención, tener puestos los cinco sentidos
- 2Tomar en consideración lo que se expresa, tenerlo en cuenta. :*Sinónimos: considerar, tomar en consideración
- 3Preocuparse del estado de algo o alguien y hacer lo necesario para que esté bien. :*Uso: se emplea también como transitivo
- 4Tener un animal un nombre y responder a él.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aetnder,atedner,atendder,atenderr,atendre,atenedr,atennder,atneder,attender,taender
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for atender
Misspelling Variants of "atender"
Frequency rank: #3,672 in Spanish
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