estrechar
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#25,259
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
estrechar is aSpanishverb. It means: Reducir a menor anchura o espacio alguna cosa. Pronounced [est̪ɾeˈt͡ʃaɾ]. Often confused with estrecho and estrenar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | estrechar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [est̪ɾeˈt͡ʃaɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #25,259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for estrechar is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [est̪ɾeˈt͡ʃaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #25,259 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for estrechar, with forms such as "esrtechar", "esstrechar", and "esterchar". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "estrecho", "estrenar", "estrechos", 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 estrechar, spelled E-S-T-R-E-C-H-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Reducir a menor anchura o espacio alguna cosa.
- 2Apretar, apurar, reducir.
- 3Precisar a uno contra su voluntad a que haga alguna cosa.
- 4Contener a uno, impedirle o embarazarle a fin de que no prosiga ni pase adelante en su propósito.
- 5En esgrima, necesitar al contrario y precisarle para concluirle.
- 6Rodear y apretar con los brazos, como muestra de afecto.
- 7Ejercer una presión moderada con una mano sobre la de otro.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esrtechar,esstrechar,esterchar,estrcehar,estrecahr,estrecchar,estrecharr,estrechhar,estrechra,estrehcar,estrrechar,esttrechar,etsrechar,setrechar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for estrechar
Misspelling Variants of "estrechar"
Frequency rank: #25,259 in Spanish
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