cercar
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#57,614
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
cercar is aSpanishverb. It means: Rodear un lugar con una valla, un seto, una alambrada, una muralla, un cerco, una cerca o con cualquier obstáculo que impida el paso y lo proteja de los extraños. Pronounced [seɾˈkaɾ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cercar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [seɾˈkaɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,614 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cercar is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [seɾˈkaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #57,614 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cercar 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 cercar, spelled C-E-R-C-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rodear un lugar con una valla, un seto, una alambrada, una muralla, un cerco, una cerca o con cualquier obstáculo que impida el paso y lo proteja de los extraños.
- 2Rodear una plaza fuerte del enemigo y asediarlo.
- 3Rodear una muchedumbre a una persona, cosa o lugar.
- 4Rodear.
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Frequency rank: #57,614 in Spanish
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