ensanchar
[ẽnsãnʲˈt͡ʃaɾ]
The verdict
“ensanchar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #60,778 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,778
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hacer más grande la anchura (la menor de las dimensiones de una figura plana) de algo; hacer más ancho.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ensanchar · ensanchar · Spanish
ensanchar · rank #60,778 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,778
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH enojen
Nearest frequency peer: enojen (-2 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 “ensanchar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- enmendado
enmendado
39,227 corpus weight
- enojadas
enojadas
39,226 corpus weight
- enojen
enojen
39,225 corpus weight
- ensanchar
ensanchar
39,223 corpus weight
- entablado
entablado
39,221 corpus weight
- entonando
entonando
39,220 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “ensanchar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cola larga: rango de “ensanchar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
ensanchar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #60,778 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ẽnsãnʲˈt͡ʃaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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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