embestir
[ẽmbesˈt̪iɾ]
The verdict
“embestir” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #67,690 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,690
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Entrar con fuerza en el espacio que ocupa otra cosa o persona.
Corpus desk
Index ES-embestir · embestir · Spanish
embestir · rank #67,690 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,690
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH electrocutado
Nearest frequency peer: electrocutado (-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 “embestir”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- election
election
32,314 corpus weight
- electiva
electiva
32,313 corpus weight
- electrocuta…
electrocutado
32,312 corpus weight
- embestir
embestir
32,311 corpus weight
- emocionadas
emocionadas
32,309 corpus weight
- empuñando
empuñando
32,307 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “embestir” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embestir |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽmbesˈt̪iɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,690 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “embestir” en español
Rare enough to double-check
embestir is uncommon Spanish at frequency #67,690 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ẽmbesˈt̪iɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for embestir, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 embestir, spelled E-M-B-E-S-T-I-R.
Definition
- 1Entrar con fuerza en el espacio que ocupa otra cosa o persona.
- 2Realizar algo con violencia sobre otra persona u objeto.
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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