estallar
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,576
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
estallar is aSpanishverb. It means: Romperse algo de golpe por presión interna produciendo gran ruido, por ejemplo como efecto de la pólvora. Pronounced [est̪aˈʝaɾ]. Often confused with estelar and Estella.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | estallar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [est̪aˈʝaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,576 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for estallar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [est̪aˈʝaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #11,576 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 estallar, with forms such as "esatllar", "esstallar", and "estalalr". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "estelar", "Estella", "estándar", 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 estallar, spelled E-S-T-A-L-L-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Romperse algo de golpe por presión interna produciendo gran ruido, por ejemplo como efecto de la pólvora.
- 2Expresar de modo súbito y con violencia una emoción fuerte.
- 3Comenzar un suceso de modo violento e inesperado.
- 4Producir de modo momentáneo un ruido fuerte y áspero, como el de un látigo en el aire.
- 5Expresar súbitamente una emoción o sentimiento reprimido o contenido, en especial si la persona es sometida a grandes presiones.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esatllar,esstallar,estalalr,estalar,estallarr,estallra,estlalar,esttallar,etsallar,setallar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for estallar
Misspelling Variants of "estallar"
Frequency rank: #11,576 in Spanish
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