ensayar
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,977
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
ensayar is aSpanishverb. It means: Probar, reconocer una cosa antes de usar de ella. Pronounced [ẽnsaˈʝaɾ]. Often confused with ensayo and enseñar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ensayar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽnsaˈʝaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,977 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ensayar is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ẽnsaˈʝaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #20,977 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 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 ensayar, with forms such as "enasyar", "ennsayar", and "ensaayr". 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, "ensayo", "enseñar", "ensayos", 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 ensayar, spelled E-N-S-A-Y-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Probar, reconocer una cosa antes de usar de ella.
- 2Amaestrar, adiestrar.
- 3Realizar una acción, en especial una actuación, como práctica previa a su exhibición pública.
- 4Intentar una acción sin plena certeza de su éxito.
- 5Probar la calidad de los minerales o la ley de los metales preciosos.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: enasyar,ennsayar,ensaayr,ensayarr,ensayra,ensayyar,enssayar,ensyaar,esnayar,nesayar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ensayar
Misspelling Variants of "ensayar"
Frequency rank: #20,977 in Spanish
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