cobijar

/[koβ̞iˈxaɾ]/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

cobijar is aSpanishverb. It means: Dar cobijo o refugio; guarecer, especialmente de la intemperie o del frío y la lluvia. Pronounced [koβ̞iˈxaɾ].

Key facts for cobijar
PropertyValue
Headwordcobijar
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA[koβ̞iˈxaɾ]
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

cobijar is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for cobijar is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [koβ̞iˈxaɾ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cobijar 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 cobijar, spelled C-O-B-I-J-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dar cobijo o refugio; guarecer, especialmente de la intemperie o del frío y la lluvia.
  2. 2
    Dar amparo o protección contra algún peligro, amenaza o adversidad, en sentido literal, como un techo, ropa, etc., o en sentido figurado, como una ley, un patrimonio, el afecto, etc.
  3. 3
    Incluir, contener o encerrar algo, especialmente si no es evidente o manifiesto.
  4. 4
    Tapar, cubrir, ocultar.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cobijar"?
"cobijar" is spelled C-O-B-I-J-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is [koβ̞iˈxaɾ].
What does "cobijar" mean?
As a verb, "cobijar" means: Dar cobijo o refugio; guarecer, especialmente de la intemperie o del frío y la lluvia.
How do you pronounce "cobijar"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cobijar" is [koβ̞iˈxaɾ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cobijar" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.