distar
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6 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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distar is aSpanishverb. It means: Dicho de un ser, punto o elemento: Tener distancia (cierta cantidad de espacio o de tiempo) respecto de otro u otros; estar separado, apartado o alejado en el tiempo o en el espacio. Pronounced [d̪isˈt̪aɾ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | distar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪isˈt̪aɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for distar is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪isˈt̪aɾ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for distar in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.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 distar, spelled D-I-S-T-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dicho de un ser, punto o elemento: Tener distancia (cierta cantidad de espacio o de tiempo) respecto de otro u otros; estar separado, apartado o alejado en el tiempo o en el espacio.
- 2Tener diferencias significativas respecto de otra persona, animal o cosa.
- 3Tener una opinión o parecer diferente al de otra persona.
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