educar
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,988
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
educar is aSpanishverb. It means: Dirigir o encaminar el proceso de aprendizaje en un ser humano, o en un animal, para promover ciertas reacciones habituales, hábitos complejos o actitudes deseadas por el educador Pronounced [eð̞uˈkaɾ]. It ranks #7,988 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with emular and evocar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | educar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [eð̞uˈkaɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,988 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for educar is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eð̞uˈkaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,988 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for educar, with forms such as "deucar", "edcuar", and "edducar". 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, "emular", "evocar", "educarse", 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 educar, spelled E-D-U-C-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dirigir o encaminar el proceso de aprendizaje en un ser humano, o en un animal, para promover ciertas reacciones habituales, hábitos complejos o actitudes deseadas por el educador
- 2Desarrollar, estimular o perfeccionar facultades intelectuales o morales de alguien
- 3Adiestrar o perfeccionar los sentidos
- 4Instruir a alguien en los usos de la cortesía, la etiqueta o la urbanidad
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: deucar,edcuar,edducar,eduacr,educarr,educcar,educra,eudcar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for educar
Misspelling Variants of "educar"
Frequency rank: #7,988 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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