enfocar
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,098
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
enfocar is aSpanishverb. It means: Ajustar la imagen de un objeto captada por un dispositivo o aparato óptico para que se reproduzca con claridad o nitidez. Pronounced [ẽɱfoˈkaɾ]. Often confused with enojar and evocar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enfocar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽɱfoˈkaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,098 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for enfocar is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ẽɱfoˈkaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #19,098 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for enfocar, with forms such as "efnocar", "enfcoar", and "enffocar". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "enojar", "evocar", "enfriar", 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 enfocar, spelled E-N-F-O-C-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ajustar la imagen de un objeto captada por un dispositivo o aparato óptico para que se reproduzca con claridad o nitidez.
- 2Encuadrar en el visor de una cámara fotográfica o video aquella parte de la imagen que se quiere registrar.
- 3Dirigir, orientar un haz de luz o de partículas en una dirección o hacia un punto determinado.
- 4Abordar o dirigirse a un asunto o tema desde un punto de vista o perspectiva particular.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: efnocar,enfcoar,enffocar,enfoacr,enfocarr,enfoccar,enfocra,ennfocar,enofcar,nefocar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for enfocar
Misspelling Variants of "enfocar"
Frequency rank: #19,098 in Spanish
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