bostezar
[bost̪eˈsaɾ]
The verdict
“bostezar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #80,753 among 2,459 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,753
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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...
Corpus desk
Index ES-bostezar · bostezar · Spanish
bostezar · rank #80,753 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,753
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH bolchevismo
Nearest frequency peer: bolchevismo (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “bostezar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Blo
Blo
19,253 corpus weight
- bloqueará
bloqueará
19,252 corpus weight
- Boise
Boise
19,250 corpus weight
- bolchevismo
bolchevismo
19,249 corpus weight
- bostezar
bostezar
19,248 corpus weight
- brin
brin
19,244 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “bostezar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cola larga: rango de “bostezar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
bostezar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #80,753 among 2,459 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [bost̪eˈsaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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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