dilatarse
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9 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
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dilatarse is aSpanishverb. It means: Llegar a ocupar más lugar, volumen o tiempo; hacerse más grande o más largo. Pronounced [d̪ilaˈt̪aɾse].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dilatarse |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪ilaˈt̪aɾse] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for dilatarse is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪ilaˈt̪aɾse]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for dilatarse 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 dilatarse, spelled D-I-L-A-T-A-R-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Llegar a ocupar más lugar, volumen o tiempo; hacerse más grande o más largo.
- 2Tomar más tiempo de lo esperado o verse postergada una acción.
- 3Llegar a ser de mayor conocimiento o fama.
- 4Tomar mucho tiempo para hacer algo, o llegar tarde; retardarse.
- 5Tomar demasiado tiempo en explicaciones o emplear exceso de palabras en una comunicación (un discurso, un escrito, una explicación, etc.).
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