desfigurar

/[d̪esfiɣ̞uˈɾaɾ]/ verb

Letters

10 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

desfigurar is aSpanishverb. It means: Desemejar, afear, ajar la composición, orden y hermosura del semblante y de las facciones. Pronounced [d̪esfiɣ̞uˈɾaɾ].

Key facts for desfigurar
PropertyValue
Headworddesfigurar
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA[d̪esfiɣ̞uˈɾaɾ]
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

desfigurar 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 desfigurar is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪esfiɣ̞uˈɾaɾ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for desfigurar 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 desfigurar, spelled D-E-S-F-I-G-U-R-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Desemejar, afear, ajar la composición, orden y hermosura del semblante y de las facciones.
  2. 2
    Disfrazar y encubrir con apariencia diferente el propio semblante, la intención u otra cosa.
  3. 3
    Obscurecer e impedir que se perciban las formas y figuras de las cosas.
  4. 4
    Referir una cosa alterando sus verdaderas circunstancias.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "desfigurar"?
"desfigurar" is spelled D-E-S-F-I-G-U-R-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is [d̪esfiɣ̞uˈɾaɾ].
What does "desfigurar" mean?
As a verb, "desfigurar" means: Desemejar, afear, ajar la composición, orden y hermosura del semblante y de las facciones.
How do you pronounce "desfigurar"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "desfigurar" is [d̪esfiɣ̞uˈɾaɾ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "desfigurar" come from?
"desfigurar" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.