empuñar
[ẽmpuˈɲaɾ]
The verdict
“empuñar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #67,695 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,695
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tomar con el puño
Corpus desk
Index ES-empunar · empuñar · Spanish
empuñar · rank #67,695 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,695
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH empuñando
Nearest frequency peer: empuñando (-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 “empuñar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- emocionadas
emocionadas
32,309 corpus weight
- empuñando
empuñando
32,307 corpus weight
- empuñar
empuñar
32,306 corpus weight
- encarnacion…
encarnaciones
32,305 corpus weight
- encendedores
encendedores
32,304 corpus weight
- encomenderos
encomenderos
32,303 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “empuñar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empuñar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽmpuˈɲaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,695 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “empuñar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
empuñar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #67,695 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ẽmpuˈɲaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for empuñar in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is empuñar, spelled E-M-P-U-Ñ-A-R.
Definition
- 1Tomar con el puño
- 2tomar o asir algo firmemente con la mano
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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