encender
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,840
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
encender is aSpanishverb. It means: Iniciar una combustión. Pronounced [ẽnsẽn̪ˈd̪eɾ]. Often confused with exceder and entender.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encender |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽnsẽn̪ˈd̪eɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,840 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for encender is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ẽnsẽn̪ˈd̪eɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #10,840 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for encender, with forms such as "ecnender", "enccender", and "encedner". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "exceder", "entender", "extender", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 encender, spelled E-N-C-E-N-D-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Iniciar una combustión.
- 2Prender fuego o incendiar algo.
- 3Poner a funcionar un aparato o máquina.
- 4Provocar una guerra.
- 5Exaltar o avivar los ánimos.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ecnender,enccender,encedner,encendder,encenderr,encendre,encenedr,encennder,encneder,enecnder,enncender,ensender,necender
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for encender
Misspelling Variants of "encender"
Frequency rank: #10,840 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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