atravesar
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,936
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
atravesar is aSpanishverb. It means: Poner un madero u otra cosa que pase de una parte a otra. Pronounced [at̪ɾaβ̞eˈsaɾ]. It ranks #9,936 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with atravesó and atraviesa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | atravesar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [at̪ɾaβ̞eˈsaɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for atravesar is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [at̪ɾaβ̞eˈsaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,936 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for atravesar, with forms such as "artavesar", "atarvesar", and "atrabesar". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "atravesó", "atraviesa", "atraviesan", 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 atravesar, spelled A-T-R-A-V-E-S-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Poner un madero u otra cosa que pase de una parte a otra.
- 2Pasar de parte a parte el cuerpo o un miembro de él con espada, bala, etc.
- 3Pasar o ir de una parte a otra.
- 4En el juego echar traviesas, apostar alguna cosa fuera de lo que se juega.
- 5En el juego del hombre y otros es meter triunfo a la carta que viene jugada.
- 6Aojar o hacer mal de ojo.
- 7Hablando de géneros de comercio, comprarlos por mayor, sin permitir que entren otros, y revenderlos a precios muy subidos.
- 8Poner la embarcación a la capa, en facha o al pairo.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: artavesar,atarvesar,atrabesar,atraevsar,atraveasr,atravesarr,atravesra,atravessar,atravsear,atravvesar,atrravesar,atrvaesar,attravesar,taravesar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for atravesar
Misspelling Variants of "atravesar"
Frequency rank: #9,936 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter A in our Spanish index: