bendecir
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#32,099
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
bendecir is aSpanishverb. It means: Pedir el favor de una deidad u otro poder espiritual para alguna cosa o persona, en especial siguendo un ritual prestablecido. Pronounced [bẽn̪d̪eˈsiɾ]. Often confused with bendecido and bendecida.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bendecir |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bẽn̪d̪eˈsiɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,099 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for bendecir is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bẽn̪d̪eˈsiɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #32,099 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for bendecir, with forms such as "bbendecir", "bednecir", and "bendceir". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "bendecido", "bendecida", 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 bendecir, spelled B-E-N-D-E-C-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pedir el favor de una deidad u otro poder espiritual para alguna cosa o persona, en especial siguendo un ritual prestablecido.
- 2Brindar un poder tal su favor a alguien.
- 3Dedicar una persona o cosa al culto.
- 4Celebrar a alguna cosa o persona con palabras.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbendecir,bednecir,bendceir,benddecir,bendeccir,bendecirr,bendecri,bendeicr,bendesir,benedcir,benndecir,bnedecir,ebndecir,vendecir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bendecir
Misspelling Variants of "bendecir"
Frequency rank: #32,099 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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