exhortar

/[eksoɾˈt̪aɾ]/ verb

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#62,315

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

exhortar is aSpanishverb. It means: Persuadir con fuerza a alguien, para que haga o deje de hacer algo. Pronounced [eksoɾˈt̪aɾ].

Key facts for exhortar
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Headwordexhortar
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA[eksoɾˈt̪aɾ]
Letters8
Frequency rank#62,315
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of exhortar in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for exhortar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eksoɾˈt̪aɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #62,315 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Persuadir con fuerza a alguien, para que haga o deje de hacer algo.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for exhortar in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 exhortar, spelled E-X-H-O-R-T-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Persuadir con fuerza a alguien, para que haga o deje de hacer algo.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #62,315 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "exhortar"?
"exhortar" is spelled E-X-H-O-R-T-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is [eksoɾˈt̪aɾ].
What does "exhortar" mean?
As a verb, "exhortar" means: Persuadir con fuerza a alguien, para que haga o deje de hacer algo.
How do you pronounce "exhortar"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "exhortar" is [eksoɾˈt̪aɾ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "exhortar" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.