confesar
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,468
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
confesar is aSpanishverb. It means: Expresar o admitir la verdad de los propios sentimientos, ideas o acciones, especialmente en el contexto de pecados o crímenes cometidos. Pronounced [kõɱfeˈsaɾ]. Often confused with confiar and confesó.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | confesar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kõɱfeˈsaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,468 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for confesar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kõɱfeˈsaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #10,468 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.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for confesar, with forms such as "cconfesar", "cnofesar", and "cofnesar". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "confiar", "confesó", "confusa", 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 confesar, spelled C-O-N-F-E-S-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Expresar o admitir la verdad de los propios sentimientos, ideas o acciones, especialmente en el contexto de pecados o crímenes cometidos.
- 2Revelar una verdad o situación propia antes oculta, secreta o desconocida.
- 3Declarar los pecados de uno ante el sacerdote dentro del sacramento de la confesión, para obtener el perdón divino.
- 4Oír los pecados de alguien dentro del sacramento de la confesión.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cconfesar,cnofesar,cofnesar,conefsar,confeasr,confesarr,confesra,confessar,conffesar,confsear,connfesar,ocnfesar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for confesar
Misspelling Variants of "confesar"
Frequency rank: #10,468 in Spanish
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