embicar
[ẽmbiˈkaɾ]
The verdict
“embicar” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Poner una verga en dirección oblicua respecto a la horizontal. Úsase a bordo como señal de luto.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embicar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽmbiˈkaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “embicar” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for embicar is 7 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ẽmbiˈkaɾ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for embicar in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 embicar, spelled E-M-B-I-C-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Poner una verga en dirección oblicua respecto a la horizontal. Úsase a bordo como señal de luto.
- 2Orzar.
- 3Atracar embistiendo la costa por proa y largando un ancla por popa.
- 4Embestir a una persona.
- 5Tomar varios tragos sucesivos de una bebida.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “embicar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is E-M-B-I-C-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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