excitar
[eksiˈt̪aɾ]
The verdict
“excitar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #50,910 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,910
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Provocar o estimular un sentimiento o una pasión.
Corpus desk
Index ES-excitar · excitar · Spanish
excitar · rank #50,910 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,910
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH excavadora
Nearest frequency peer: excavadora (-1 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 “excitar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- evadiendo
evadiendo
49,094 corpus weight
- evitemos
evitemos
49,093 corpus weight
- excavadora
excavadora
49,092 corpus weight
- excitar
excitar
49,091 corpus weight
- executive
executive
49,089 corpus weight
- exhausta
exhausta
49,088 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “excitar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | excitar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [eksiˈt̪aɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,910 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “excitar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
excitar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #50,910 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [eksiˈt̪aɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for excitar, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is excitar, spelled E-X-C-I-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1Provocar o estimular un sentimiento o una pasión.
- 2Provocar entusiasmo o alegría.
- 3Producir enojo, nerviosismo o impaciencia.
- 4Despertar deseo sexual.
- 5Producir un aumento de la actividad de una célula, órgano u organismo mediante un estímulo.
- 6Producir un aumento de la energía en algún cuerpo o partícula.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how excitar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Excitar un electrón
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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