encomendar
[ẽŋkomẽn̪ˈd̪aɾ]
The verdict
“encomendar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #84,824 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,824
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pedir a alguien que desempeñe una tarea.
Corpus desk
Index ES-encomendar · encomendar · Spanish
encomendar · rank #84,824 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,824
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH enchufa
Nearest frequency peer: enchufa (-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 “encomendar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- encarnando
encarnando
15,180 corpus weight
- encausado
encausado
15,179 corpus weight
- enchufa
enchufa
15,178 corpus weight
- encomendar
encomendar
15,177 corpus weight
- encrucijadas
encrucijadas
15,176 corpus weight
- endeuda
endeuda
15,175 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “encomendar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encomendar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽŋkomẽn̪ˈd̪aɾ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #84,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “encomendar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
encomendar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #84,824 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ẽŋkomẽn̪ˈd̪aɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for encomendar in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is encomendar, spelled E-N-C-O-M-E-N-D-A-R.
Definition
- 1Pedir a alguien que desempeñe una tarea.
- 2En las antiguas colonias españolas en América, entregar a alguien un grupo de indígenas bajo el sistema de encomienda.
- 3Dar encomienda, hacer comendador a uno.
- 4Enviar recados o memorias.
- 5Llegar a tener encomienda de orden.
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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