cebar
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#64,445
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
cebar is aSpanishverb. It means: Dar o echar cebo a los animales para alimentarlos, engordarlos o atraerlos. Pronounced [seˈβ̞aɾ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cebar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [seˈβ̞aɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,445 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cebar is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [seˈβ̞aɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #64,445 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.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cebar in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 cebar, spelled C-E-B-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dar o echar cebo a los animales para alimentarlos, engordarlos o atraerlos.
- 2Alimentar, fomentar; como echar aceite a la luz, leña al fuego, mineral al horno, etc.
- 3Poner en las armas y proyectiles que tienen carga explosiva, el cebo necesario para inflamarla.
- 4Poner fuego al cohete u otro artificio de pólvora.
- 5Hablando de máquinas o aparatos, ponerlos en condiciones de empezar a funcionar, como un sifón de líquido, una máquina de vapor dando vueltas con la mano al volante, etc.
- 6Tratándose de la aguja magnética, tocarla a un imán para darle o renovarle la fuerza.
- 7Fomentar o alimentar un afecto o pasión.
- 8Agregar agua caliente al mate o yerba mate.
Synonyms
Frequency rank: #64,445 in Spanish
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