colgar
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,636
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
colgar is aSpanishverb. It means: Sujetar algo o alguien de modo que no toque el suelo. Pronounced [kolˈɣ̞aɾ]. Often confused with color and colgó.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colgar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kolˈɣ̞aɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,636 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for colgar is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kolˈɣ̞aɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #10,636 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for colgar, with forms such as "ccolgar", "clogar", and "coglar". 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, "color", "colgó", "conga", 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 colgar, spelled C-O-L-G-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sujetar algo o alguien de modo que no toque el suelo.
- 2Poner a una persona o animal una cuerda por el cuello con los pies o patas en el aire, de modo de provocarle la muerte.
- 3Hacer una exposición de pintura, fotografía, u otra en la que las obras de arte se cuelgan de una pared o muro.
- 4Atribuirle hechos reprobables o cosas negativas, casi siempre falsas, a una persona.
- 5Cortar una llamada telefónica.
- 6Abandonar una profesión. La profesión que se abandona se indica posponiendo una palabra simbólica.
- 7Sacar una mala calificación en un examen o asignatura.
- 8Anotar un gol a un arquero que está adelantado haciendo picar la pelota, es decir, con una vaselina.
- 9Dejar indefensa una pieza, tal que pueda ser fácilmente capturada por el rival sin nada a cambio.
- 10Transferir datos o archivos desde un sistema periférico o subordinado a uno más grande o central, especialmente desde un ordenador, móvil o tableta a un servidor en internet.
- 11Bloquear el ordenador o un programa por una sobrecarga de trabajo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccolgar,clogar,coglar,colagr,colgarr,colggar,colgra,collgar,oclgar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for colgar
Misspelling Variants of "colgar"
Frequency rank: #10,636 in Spanish
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