cribar

/[kɾiˈβ̞aɾ]/ verb

Letters

6 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

cribar is aSpanishverb. It means: Por medio de la criba, limpiar el trigo (u otra semilla) del polvo, tierra, neguilla y demás impurezas, zarandeando la criba. Pronounced [kɾiˈβ̞aɾ].

Key facts for cribar
PropertyValue
Headwordcribar
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA[kɾiˈβ̞aɾ]
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

cribar is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for cribar is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kɾiˈβ̞aɾ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cribar in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 cribar, spelled C-R-I-B-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Por medio de la criba, limpiar el trigo (u otra semilla) del polvo, tierra, neguilla y demás impurezas, zarandeando la criba.
  2. 2
    Pasar una semilla, un mineral u otra materia por la criba, para separar las partes finas de las gruesas.
  3. 3
    Hacer selección de lo que interesa.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cribar"?
"cribar" is spelled C-R-I-B-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is [kɾiˈβ̞aɾ].
What does "cribar" mean?
As a verb, "cribar" means: Por medio de la criba, limpiar el trigo (u otra semilla) del polvo, tierra, neguilla y demás impurezas, zarandeando la criba.
How do you pronounce "cribar"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cribar" is [kɾiˈβ̞aɾ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cribar" come from?
"cribar" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.