definir
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,152
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
definir is aSpanishverb. It means: Formular con claridad y exactitud el significado de algo. Pronounced [d̪efiˈniɾ]. It ranks #4,152 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with devenir and definirá.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | definir |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪efiˈniɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,152 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for definir is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪efiˈniɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,152 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 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 definir, with forms such as "ddefinir", "deffinir", and "defiinr". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "devenir", "definirá", "definirse", 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 definir, spelled D-E-F-I-N-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Formular con claridad y exactitud el significado de algo.
- 2Decidir o resolver algo sobre lo que había dudas.
- 3Dar los toques finales con precisión para dejar concluida una obra.
- 4Establecer los parámetros de un programa u operación.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddefinir,deffinir,defiinr,definirr,definnir,definri,defniir,deifnir,dfeinir,edfinir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for definir
Misspelling Variants of "definir"
Frequency rank: #4,152 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter D in our Spanish index: