doblar
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,343
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
doblar is aSpanishverb. It means: Hacer que algo sea dos veces lo que era. :*Sinónimo: duplicar Pronounced [d̪oˈβ̞laɾ]. Often confused with dolor and doble.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doblar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪oˈβ̞laɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,343 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for doblar is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪oˈβ̞laɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,343 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 13 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 doblar, with forms such as "dbolar", "ddoblar", and "dobalr". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "dolor", "doble", "donar", 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 doblar, spelled D-O-B-L-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Hacer que algo sea dos veces lo que era. :*Sinónimo: duplicar
- 2Tener o valer dos veces la edad, el peso, etc., de otra persona, animal o cosa.
- 3Poner algo flexible de modo de quede plano y que sus extremos opuestos se toquen.
- 4Curvar un poco al ejercer una presión.
- 5Mover el tronco del cuerpo de modo que ya no esté recto.
- 6Poner una extremidad en una posición que no sea la recta.
- 7Al desplazarse, superar una curva del camino o ruta, cambiando de dirección.
- 8Dicho de una embarcación, superar un accidente geográfico, cambiando de dirección.
- 9En las películas, cambiar las voces de los actores por otras que los hacen parecer hablar en el idioma del país de destino de la obra.
- 10En las filmaciones de escenas peligrosas, sustituir a los actores por especialistas en escenas de riesgo.
- 11En el ajedrez, poner dos peones en la misma columna.
- 12Vapulear a una persona.
- 13Matar de un balazo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: dbolar,ddoblar,dobalr,dobblar,doblarr,dobllar,doblra,dolbar,dovlar,odblar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for doblar
Misspelling Variants of "doblar"
Frequency rank: #14,343 in Spanish
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