curar
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,409
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
curar is aSpanishverb. It means: Restaurar la salud de una persona, o de alguna parte de su cuerpo, afectada por una enfermedad, lesión o dolor. Pronounced [kuˈɾaɾ]. It ranks #7,409 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with cuya and cure.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | curar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kuˈɾaɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,409 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for curar is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kuˈɾaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,409 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for curar, with forms such as "ccurar", "cruar", and "cuarr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cuya", "cure", "curo", 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 curar, spelled C-U-R-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Restaurar la salud de una persona, o de alguna parte de su cuerpo, afectada por una enfermedad, lesión o dolor.
- 2Aplicar a un enfermo los remedios correspondientes a su enfermedad.
- 3Sanar las dolencias o pasiones del alma.
- 4Remediar un mal.
- 5Disponer o costear lo necesario para la curación de un enfermo.
- 6Hablando de carnes y pescados, prepararlos por medio de la sal, el humo, etc., para que, perdiendo la humedad, se conserven por mucho tiempo.
- 7Curtir y preparar las pieles para usos industriales.
- 8Dicho de las maderas, tenerlas cortadas mucho tiempo antes de usar de ellas, conservándolas entre cieno y agua o al aire libre, según el uso para el que estén destinadas.
- 9Hablando de hilos y lienzos, tratarlos para que se blanqueen.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccurar,cruar,cuarr,curarr,ucrar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for curar
Misspelling Variants of "curar"
Frequency rank: #7,409 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: