cazar
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,186
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cazar is aSpanishverb. It means: Buscar o seguir a las aves, fieras y otros animales para cogerlos y matarlos. Pronounced [kaˈsaɾ]. Often confused with cazo and crear.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cazar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kaˈsaɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,186 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cazar is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈsaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #11,186 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for cazar, with forms such as "aczar", "caazr", and "cazarr". 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, "cazo", "crear", "césar", 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 cazar, spelled C-A-Z-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Buscar o seguir a las aves, fieras y otros animales para cogerlos y matarlos.
- 2Adquirir con destreza alguna cosa difícil o que no se esperaba.
- 3Prender, cautivar la voluntad de alguno con halagos o engaños.
- 4Poner tirante la escota, hasta que el puño de la vela quede lo más cerca posible de la borda.
- 5Ajustar un cabo que sostiene algo, para que quede más tenso.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aczar,caazr,cazarr,cazra,cazzar,ccazar,czaar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cazar
Misspelling Variants of "cazar"
Frequency rank: #11,186 in Spanish
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