embellecer
[ẽmbeʝeˈseɾ]
The verdict
“embellecer” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #47,096 in Spanish word frequency and used as a verb.
- #47,096
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 10
- letters
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Hacer algo estéticamente más bonito o más bello, añadiéndole detalles u ornamentos o efectuando una acción de maquillaje.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embellecer |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽmbeʝeˈseɾ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #47,096 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “embellecer” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for embellecer is 10 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ẽmbeʝeˈseɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #47,096 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Hacer algo estéticamente más bonito o más bello, añadiéndole detalles u ornamentos o efectuando una acción de maquillaje.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for embellecer, with forms such as "ebmellecer", "embbellecer", and "embelecer". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is embellecer, spelled E-M-B-E-L-L-E-C-E-R.
Definition
- 1Hacer algo estéticamente más bonito o más bello, añadiéndole detalles u ornamentos o efectuando una acción de maquillaje.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ebmellecer,embbellecer,embelecer,embelelcer,embellceer,embelleccer,embellecerr,embellecre,embelleecr,embelleser,emblelecer,emebllecer,emmbellecer,emvellecer,mebellecer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of embellecer - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “embellecer”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is E-M-B-E-L-L-E-C-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ẽmbeʝeˈseɾ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.