cuartear
[kwaɾt̪eˈaɾ]
The verdict
“cuartear” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partir o dividir una cosa en cuartas partes.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cuartear · cuartear · Spanish
cuartear · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuartear |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kwaɾt̪eˈaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cuartear” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cuartear is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [kwaɾt̪eˈaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 9 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cuartear, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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. The correct Spanish form is cuartear, spelled C-U-A-R-T-E-A-R.
Definition
- 1Partir o dividir una cosa en cuartas partes.
- 2Por extensión: dividir en más o menos partes.
- 3Descuartizar
- 4Echar la puja del cuarto en las rentas ya rematadas; lo cual se podía hacer dentro de los noventa días primeros de cada año de los del arrendamiento, y no después.
- 5Entrar a cumplir el número de cuatro para jugar algún juego.
- 6En las cuestas y malos pasos de los caminos, dirigir los carruajes de derecha a izquierda, y viceversa, en vez de seguir la linea recta.
- 7Encuartar, enganchar.
- 8Azotar repetidas veces con la cuarta.
- 9Ayudar a alguien a salir de un aprieto.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.