cambiar
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#668
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cambiar is aSpanishverb. It means: Sustituir una cosa por otra. Dejar un estado, cosa o situación para tomar otra. Pronounced [kãmˈbjaɾ]. It ranks #668 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with cambio and cumbia.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cambiar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kãmˈbjaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cambiar is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kãmˈbjaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #668 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for cambiar, with forms such as "acmbiar", "cabmiar", and "cambair". 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, "cambio", "cumbia", "cambié", 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 cambiar, spelled C-A-M-B-I-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sustituir una cosa por otra. Dejar un estado, cosa o situación para tomar otra.
- 2Modificar o alterar el estado, ser o apariencia de algo o de alguien.
- 3Entregar y/o recibir algo por otra cosa que se estima de un valor comparable o análogo.
- 4Dirigir, entre dos o más seres, gestos, ideas, información, afecto, etc. de modo recíproco o mutuo.
- 5Llevar o trasladar de un lugar a otro.
- 6Quitar una prenda de ropa y poner otra.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acmbiar,cabmiar,cambair,cambbiar,cambiarr,cambira,camibar,cammbiar,camviar,ccambiar,cmabiar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cambiar
Misspelling Variants of "cambiar"
Frequency rank: #668 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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