cepillar
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#66,754
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
cepillar is aSpanishverb. It means: Pasar un cepillo, de cerdas generalmente, sobre la ropa, muebles y otras superficies, para quitar el polvo, pelusillas y suciedades. Para ciertos trabajos específicos se usan cepillos de plástico, ... Pronounced [sepiˈʝaɾ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cepillar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [sepiˈʝaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,754 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cepillar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sepiˈʝaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #66,754 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cepillar 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 cepillar, spelled C-E-P-I-L-L-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pasar un cepillo, de cerdas generalmente, sobre la ropa, muebles y otras superficies, para quitar el polvo, pelusillas y suciedades. Para ciertos trabajos específicos se usan cepillos de plástico, para lavar ropa o limpiarse los dientes, o de púas de acero, para desenmarañar el pelo de algunos animales, por ejemplo.
- 2Pasar un cepillo cortante de acero a la madera para emparejar o rebajar una superficie.
- 3Usar un cepillo para trabajar un metal, para pulir.
- 4Pasar un cepillo sobre el cabello para desenredarlo y peinarlo.
- 5Mejorar los modales, lenguaje y educación.
- 6Ser zalamero, demostrar sumisión y amabilidad excesivas con un superior jerárquico.
- 7Gastar todo lo que se tiene.
- 8Tener relaciones sexuales.
- 9Dejar a alguien sin dinero.
- 10Despedir personal de una empresa o negocio por ajuste presupuestal.^([cita requerida]).
Frequency rank: #66,754 in Spanish
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