empecinarse
[ẽmpesiˈnaɾse]
The verdict
“empecinarse” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Empeñarse con obstinación.
Corpus desk
Index ES-empecinarse · empecinarse · Spanish
empecinarse · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empecinarse |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽmpesiˈnaɾse] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “empecinarse” en español
Rare enough to double-check
empecinarse is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ẽmpesiˈnaɾse]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Empeñarse con obstinación.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for empecinarse, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 empecinarse, spelled E-M-P-E-C-I-N-A-R-S-E.
Definition
- 1Empeñarse con obstinación.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how empecinarse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Que la paz sea contigo, Ana María, niña obcecada, voluntariosa y buena. Y que Dios te asista y reciba en Sí. Ese Dios del que te empecinaste en vivir apartada.
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.