coger
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,682
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
coger is aSpanishverb. It means: Aproximar las manos hacia algo para retenerlo. Pronounced [koˈxeɾ]. It ranks #3,682 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with cor and come.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coger |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [koˈxeɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,682 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for coger is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [koˈxeɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,682 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for coger, with forms such as "ccoger", "cgoer", and "coegr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cor", "come", "cole", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 coger, spelled C-O-G-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Aproximar las manos hacia algo para retenerlo.
- 2Agarrar algo con intención de usarlo.
- 3Recibir.
- 4Alcanzar o atrapar a alguien.
- 5Descubrirle a alguien algo que trataba de ocultar.
- 6Capturar algo mediante una trampa.
- 7Pasar a tener cierta cosa por el procedimiento que sea.
- 8Contraer una enfermedad.
- 9Darle una cornada el toro a alguien en una corrida taurina o un encierro.
- 10Comprender algo.
- 11Mantener relaciones sexuales, hacer el coito.
- 12Vencer o derrotar a alguien de forma estrepitosa.
- 13Abarcar espacio.
- 14Alquilar u obtener algo mediante algún contrato.
- 15Caber.
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccoger,cgoer,coegr,cogerr,cogger,cogre,ocger
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for coger
Misspelling Variants of "coger"
Frequency rank: #3,682 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: