embaucar
[ẽmbawˈkaɾ]
The verdict
“embaucar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #68,522 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,522
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Engañar o alucinar a alguien, aprovechándose de la ingenuidad o inexperiencia del engañado.
Corpus desk
Index ES-embaucar · embaucar · Spanish
embaucar · rank #68,522 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,522
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH emanado
Nearest frequency peer: emanado (-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 “embaucar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- elongación
elongación
31,482 corpus weight
- emanada
emanada
31,481 corpus weight
- emanado
emanado
31,480 corpus weight
- embaucar
embaucar
31,479 corpus weight
- embestidas
embestidas
31,478 corpus weight
- emitimos
emitimos
31,477 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “embaucar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embaucar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽmbawˈkaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,522 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “embaucar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
embaucar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #68,522 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ẽmbawˈkaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Engañar o alucinar a alguien, aprovechándose de la ingenuidad o inexperiencia del engañado.".
No misspelling variants are generated for embaucar in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is embaucar, spelled E-M-B-A-U-C-A-R.
Definition
- 1Engañar o alucinar a alguien, aprovechándose de la ingenuidad o inexperiencia del engañado.
This word in other languages
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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