brincar
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#48,255
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
brincar is aSpanishverb. It means: Elevarse del suelo mediante el impulso de los pies; dar brincos. Pronounced [bɾĩŋˈkaɾ]. Often confused with brinda and bronca.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brincar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bɾĩŋˈkaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #48,255 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for brincar is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bɾĩŋˈkaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #48,255 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for brincar, with forms such as "bbrincar", "birncar", and "bricnar". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "brinda", "bronca", "brinco", 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 brincar, spelled B-R-I-N-C-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Elevarse del suelo mediante el impulso de los pies; dar brincos.
- 2Pasar de una cosa a otra, o de un puesto a otro, de manera brusca u omitiendo pasos o elementos intermedios.
- 3Elevar y bajar en brazos a un niño o un animal, como si estuviera dando saltos, por juego o diversión.
- 4Manifestar una fuerte emoción, especialmente positiva, ante algo.
- 5Obtener un cargo más alto que el que se tenía.
- 6Responder o protestar de modo brusco y agresivo.
- 7Tener relaciones sexuales.
- 8Cubrir el caballo a la yegua.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbrincar,birncar,bricnar,brinacr,brincarr,brinccar,brincra,brinncar,brnicar,brrincar,rbincar,vrincar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for brincar
Misspelling Variants of "brincar"
Frequency rank: #48,255 in Spanish
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