enseñar
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,551
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
enseñar is aSpanishverb. It means: Ayudar o hacer a alguien aprender. Pronounced [ẽnseˈɲaɾ]. It ranks #3,551 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with enseño and enseñé.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enseñar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽnseˈɲaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,551 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for enseñar is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ẽnseˈɲaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,551 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for enseñar, with forms such as "enceñar", "enesñar", and "ennseñar". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "enseño", "enseñé", "enterar", 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 enseñar, spelled E-N-S-E-Ñ-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ayudar o hacer a alguien aprender.
- 2Mostrar algo a alguien.
- 3Indicar, dar señas de una cosa.
- 4Dejar aparecer, dejar ver una cosa involuntariamente.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: enceñar,enesñar,ennseñar,enseañr,enseñarr,enseñra,ensseñar,ensñear,esneñar,neseñar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for enseñar
Misspelling Variants of "enseñar"
Frequency rank: #3,551 in Spanish
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