ensanchar
[ẽnsãnʲˈt͡ʃaɾ]
The verdict
“ensanchar” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #60,778 in Spanish word frequency and used as a verb.
- #60,778
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Hacer más grande la anchura (la menor de las dimensiones de una figura plana) de algo; hacer más ancho.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ensanchar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽnsãnʲˈt͡ʃaɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #60,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ensanchar” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ensanchar is 9 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ẽnsãnʲˈt͡ʃaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #60,778 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Hacer más grande la anchura (la menor de las dimensiones de una figura plana) de algo; hacer más ancho.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ensanchar 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, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 ensanchar, spelled E-N-S-A-N-C-H-A-R.
Definition
- 1Hacer más grande la anchura (la menor de las dimensiones de una figura plana) de algo; hacer más ancho.
Synonyms
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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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Using “ensanchar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is E-N-S-A-N-C-H-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ẽnsãnʲˈt͡ʃaɾ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.