azar
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,373
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
azar is aSpanishnoun. It means: Combinación de causas o circunstancias imprevisibles y sin plan previo. Pronounced [aˈsaɾ]. It ranks #5,373 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with azul and azur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | azar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈsaɾ] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,373 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for azar is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈsaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,373 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for azar, with forms such as "aazr", "azarr", and "azra". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "azul", "azur", "Aznar", 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 azar, spelled A-Z-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Combinación de causas o circunstancias imprevisibles y sin plan previo.
- 2Suceso que acaece por azar₁.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aazr,azarr,azra,azzar,zaar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for azar
Misspelling Variants of "azar"
Frequency rank: #5,373 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter A in our Spanish index: