confirmar
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,775
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
confirmar is aSpanishverb. It means: Corroborar la verdad de una afirmación o un hecho supuesto, o la certeza de una cosa. Pronounced [kõɱfiɾˈmaɾ]. It ranks #4,775 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with conforma and confirmo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | confirmar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kõɱfiɾˈmaɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,775 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for confirmar is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kõɱfiɾˈmaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,775 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for confirmar, with forms such as "cconfirmar", "cnofirmar", and "cofnirmar". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "conforma", "confirmo", "confirme", 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 confirmar, spelled C-O-N-F-I-R-M-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Corroborar la verdad de una afirmación o un hecho supuesto, o la certeza de una cosa.
- 2Dar una segunda aprobación a algo ya acordado.
- 3Dar prueba definitiva de una afirmación.
- 4Repetir lo dicho por otros, siendo una prueba suplementaria de dicha afirmación.
- 5Darle una mayor seguridad a alguien en sus convicciones.
- 6Dicho de un cargo o empleo: Asegurar el jefe competente que la persona sigue en el puesto o empleo.
- 7En la religión católica, administrar el sacramento de la confirmación.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cconfirmar,cnofirmar,cofnirmar,conffirmar,confimrar,confiramr,confirmarr,confirmmar,confirmra,confirrmar,confrimar,conifrmar,connfirmar,ocnfirmar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for confirmar
Misspelling Variants of "confirmar"
Frequency rank: #4,775 in Spanish
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