engañarse
[ẽŋgaˈɲaɾse]
The verdict
“engañarse” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #53,534 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,534
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Creer lo que no es cierto.
Corpus desk
Index ES-enganarse · engañarse · Spanish
engañarse · rank #53,534 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,534
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH engordando
Nearest frequency peer: engordando (+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 “engañarse”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- encarcela
encarcela
46,471 corpus weight
- encenderse
encenderse
46,470 corpus weight
- encontraréis
encontraréis
46,469 corpus weight
- engañarse
engañarse
46,467 corpus weight
- engordando
engordando
46,466 corpus weight
- enlatados
enlatados
46,465 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “engañarse” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | engañarse |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽŋgaˈɲaɾse] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #53,534 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “engañarse” en español
Rare enough to double-check
engañarse is uncommon Spanish at frequency #53,534 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ẽŋgaˈɲaɾse]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for engañarse in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 engañarse, spelled E-N-G-A-Ñ-A-R-S-E.
Definition
- 1Creer lo que no es cierto.
- 2Creer erradamente que algo es de cierta manera y obrar según dicho error.
- 3Negarse a aceptar un hecho, una verdad o algo evidente. Cerrarse a ver algo como es.
Synonyms
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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