curtir

/[kuɾˈt̪iɾ]/ verb

Letters

6 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

curtir is aSpanishverb. It means: Procesar el cuero por medios químicos o mecánicos de tal modo que resulte apto para su empleo. Pronounced [kuɾˈt̪iɾ].

Key facts for curtir
PropertyValue
Headwordcurtir
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA[kuɾˈt̪iɾ]
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

curtir 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 curtir is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kuɾˈt̪iɾ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for curtir 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 curtir, spelled C-U-R-T-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Procesar el cuero por medios químicos o mecánicos de tal modo que resulte apto para su empleo.
  2. 2
    Macerar la comida en vinagre para que se conserve.
  3. 3
    Echar sal en los minerales fríos o magistral en los calientes para amalgamarlos.
  4. 4
    Endurecer la piel de un gallo de pelea para protegerlo de los picotazos del rival.
  5. 5
    Endurecer o tostar el sol o el aire el cutis de las personas que andan a la inclemencia.
  6. 6
    Acostumbrar a uno a la vida dura y a sufrir las inclemencias del tiempo.
  7. 7
    Azotar.
  8. 8
    Tener relaciones sexuales con otra persona.
  9. 9
    Llevar un cierto estilo de vida o tener determinadas preferencias.
  10. 10
    Consumir sustancias que alteran el estado de conciencia, especialmente las ilegales.^([cita requerida])
  11. 11
    Delatar el hecho que un individuo se encuentre bajo el efecto de las drogas a otra persona que no pueda saberlo.^([cita requerida])
  12. 12
    Ensuciar la ropa.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "curtir"?
"curtir" is spelled C-U-R-T-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is [kuɾˈt̪iɾ].
What does "curtir" mean?
As a verb, "curtir" means: Procesar el cuero por medios químicos o mecánicos de tal modo que resulte apto para su empleo.
How do you pronounce "curtir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "curtir" is [kuɾˈt̪iɾ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "curtir" come from?
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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.