embarazar
[ẽmbaɾaˈsaɾ]
The verdict
“embarazar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #54,857 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,857
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Impedir o retardar alguna cosa.
Corpus desk
Index ES-embarazar · embarazar · Spanish
embarazar · rank #54,857 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,857
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH elogiada
Nearest frequency peer: elogiada (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “embarazar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- efeméride
efeméride
45,148 corpus weight
- elogiada
elogiada
45,145 corpus weight
- embarazar
embarazar
45,144 corpus weight
- embargar
embargar
45,143 corpus weight
- empobrecida
empobrecida
45,142 corpus weight
- empíricas
empíricas
45,141 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “embarazar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embarazar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽmbaɾaˈsaɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,857 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “embarazar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
embarazar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #54,857 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ẽmbaɾaˈsaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for embarazar, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is embarazar, spelled E-M-B-A-R-A-Z-A-R.
Definition
- 1Impedir o retardar alguna cosa.
- 2Dejar embarazada a una persona.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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