curtir
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].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | curtir |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kuɾˈt̪iɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Procesar el cuero por medios químicos o mecánicos de tal modo que resulte apto para su empleo.
- 2Macerar la comida en vinagre para que se conserve.
- 3Echar sal en los minerales fríos o magistral en los calientes para amalgamarlos.
- 4Endurecer la piel de un gallo de pelea para protegerlo de los picotazos del rival.
- 5Endurecer o tostar el sol o el aire el cutis de las personas que andan a la inclemencia.
- 6Acostumbrar a uno a la vida dura y a sufrir las inclemencias del tiempo.
- 7Azotar.
- 8Tener relaciones sexuales con otra persona.
- 9Llevar un cierto estilo de vida o tener determinadas preferencias.
- 10Consumir sustancias que alteran el estado de conciencia, especialmente las ilegales.^([cita requerida])
- 11Delatar el hecho que un individuo se encuentre bajo el efecto de las drogas a otra persona que no pueda saberlo.^([cita requerida])
- 12Ensuciar la ropa.
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