cerciorarse
[seɾsjoˈɾaɾse]
The verdict
“cerciorarse” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #65,204 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,204
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Asegurarse de que algo es cierto.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cerciorarse · cerciorarse · Spanish
cerciorarse · rank #65,204 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,204
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH centella
Nearest frequency peer: centella (-2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “cerciorarse”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Catalonia
Catalonia
34,803 corpus weight
- cazadoras
cazadoras
34,801 corpus weight
- centella
centella
34,799 corpus weight
- cerciorarse
cerciorarse
34,797 corpus weight
- certeras
certeras
34,795 corpus weight
- chanchos
chanchos
34,791 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cerciorarse” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cerciorarse |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [seɾsjoˈɾaɾse] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #65,204 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cerciorarse” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cerciorarse is uncommon Spanish at frequency #65,204 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [seɾsjoˈɾaɾse]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Asegurarse de que algo es cierto.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cerciorarse in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is cerciorarse, spelled C-E-R-C-I-O-R-A-R-S-E.
Definition
- 1Asegurarse de que algo es cierto.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cerciorarse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cerciorarse de algo.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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