donar

/[d̪oˈnaɾ]/ verb

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,443

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

donar is aSpanishverb. It means: Ceder un bien material sin obtener a cambio un pago de quien recibe. Pronounced [d̪oˈnaɾ]. It ranks #9,443 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with dora and dong.

Key facts for donar
PropertyValue
Headworddonar
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA[d̪oˈnaɾ]
Letters5
Frequency rank#9,443
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of donar in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for donar is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪oˈnaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,443 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ceder un bien material sin obtener a cambio un pago de quien recibe.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for donar, with forms such as "ddonar", "dnoar", and "doanr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dora", "dong", "dota", 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 donar, spelled D-O-N-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ceder un bien material sin obtener a cambio un pago de quien recibe.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ddonar,dnoar,doanr,donarr,donnar,donra,odnar

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for donar

Misspelling Variants of "donar"

ddonar6dnoar5doanr5donarr6donnar6donra5odnar5
Misspelling Variants of "donar"

Frequency rank: #9,443 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "donar"?
"donar" is spelled D-O-N-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is [d̪oˈnaɾ].
What does "donar" mean?
As a verb, "donar" means: Ceder un bien material sin obtener a cambio un pago de quien recibe.
What words are commonly confused with "donar"?
"donar" is commonly confused with "dora", "dong", "dota". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "donar"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "donar" is [d̪oˈnaɾ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "donar" come from?
"donar" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Other entries that begin with the letter D in our Spanish index:

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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.