congelar
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,271
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
congelar is aSpanishverb. It means: Solidificar un líquido por acción del frío. Pronounced [kõŋxeˈlaɾ]. Often confused with consular and consolar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | congelar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kõŋxeˈlaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,271 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for congelar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kõŋxeˈlaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #21,271 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 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 congelar, with forms such as "ccongelar", "cnogelar", and "cognelar". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "consular", "consolar", "cancelar", 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 congelar, spelled C-O-N-G-E-L-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Solidificar un líquido por acción del frío.
- 2Someter y conservar alimentos, medicamentos y otros materiales delicados a temperaturas muy bajas para evitar que se dañen por acción del calor.
- 3Causar el frío daños en los organismos vivos, produciendo a veces la necrosis en tejidos expuestos a muy bajas temperaturas.
- 4Parar, detener o fijar una acción en curso, un proceso, etc., y mantenerlos así por tiempo indefinido.
- 5Hacer que se detenga una imagen, secuencia o plano que estaba en movimiento.
- 6Prohibir un gobierno que se muevan fondos, impidiendo cualquier clase de transacción con ellos.
- 7Decretar que no puede alterarse, especialmente subir, el monto de salarios o de precios.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccongelar,cnogelar,cognelar,coneglar,congealr,congelarr,congellar,congelra,conggelar,conglear,conngelar,ocngelar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for congelar
Misspelling Variants of "congelar"
Frequency rank: #21,271 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: