dormir
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,212
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
dormir is aSpanishverb. It means: Permanecer en un estado de reposo del cuerpo sin que se presenten movimientos físicos voluntarios y con un estado de consciencia reducido. Pronounced [d̪oɾˈmiɾ]. It ranks #1,212 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with durmió and dormirse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dormir |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪oɾˈmiɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,212 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for dormir is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪oɾˈmiɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,212 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for dormir, with forms such as "ddormir", "domrir", and "dorimr". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "durmió", "dormirse", "Doris", 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 dormir, spelled D-O-R-M-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Permanecer en un estado de reposo del cuerpo sin que se presenten movimientos físicos voluntarios y con un estado de consciencia reducido.
- 2Pasar la noche en algún sitio.
- 3Descuidarse, obrar en un negocio con menos atención o cuidado de lo que se requiere.
- 4Dicho de un objeto: caer en el olvido o permanecer en la postergación.
- 5Sosegarse o apaciguarse lo que estaba inquieto o alterado.
- 6Dicho de un trompo: bailar con mucha rapidez, sin cabecear ni moverse de un sitio.
- 7En ciertos juegos de naipes, como el tresillo, quedar en la baceta alguna carta sin utilizar.
- 8Tomarse tiempo para meditar o discurrir sobre cosas que sean objeto de pensamiento.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddormir,domrir,dorimr,dormirr,dormmir,dormri,dorrmir,dromir,odrmir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for dormir
Misspelling Variants of "dormir"
Frequency rank: #1,212 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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