cubrir
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,111
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
cubrir is aSpanishverb. It means: Poner algo sobre una cosa o persona, para diferentes fines como taparla, protegerla u ocultarla. Pronounced [kuˈβ̞ɾiɾ]. It ranks #3,111 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with curar and curia.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cubrir |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kuˈβ̞ɾiɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,111 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cubrir is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kuˈβ̞ɾiɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,111 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for cubrir, with forms such as "cburir", "ccubrir", and "cubbrir". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "curar", "curia", "Curie", 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 cubrir, spelled C-U-B-R-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Poner algo sobre una cosa o persona, para diferentes fines como taparla, protegerla u ocultarla.
- 2Dicho de un defensa, marcar a un jugador del equipo contrario para que no pueda obtener una posición ventajosa.
- 3Dicho del macho, copular con la hembra.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cburir,ccubrir,cubbrir,cubirr,cubrirr,cubrri,cubrrir,curbir,cuvrir,ucbrir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cubrir
Misspelling Variants of "cubrir"
Frequency rank: #3,111 in Spanish
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