bostezar
[bost̪eˈsaɾ]
The verdict
“bostezar” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #80,753 in Spanish word frequency and used as a verb.
- #80,753
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Emitir un bostezo, acto reflejo que consiste en abrir la boca ampliamente, inspirar profundamente y espirar con menor fuerza. Aunque está relacionado con el sueño y el tedio, no se conoce su funció...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bostezar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bost̪eˈsaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,753 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bostezar” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for bostezar is 8 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bost̪eˈsaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #80,753 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Emitir un bostezo, acto reflejo que consiste en abrir la boca ampliamente, inspirar profundamente y espirar con menor fuerza. Aunque está relacionado con el sueño y el tedio, no se conoce su funció...".
Zero misspellings are on record for bostezar in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 bostezar, spelled B-O-S-T-E-Z-A-R.
Definition
- 1Emitir un bostezo, acto reflejo que consiste en abrir la boca ampliamente, inspirar profundamente y espirar con menor fuerza. Aunque está relacionado con el sueño y el tedio, no se conoce su función o utilidad. Aunque se asocia a un requerimiento de oxigeno por parte del cerebro, sería un acto reflejo que nos informa de esta necesidad.
This word in other languages
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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Using “bostezar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is B-O-S-T-E-Z-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [bost̪eˈsaɾ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.