exhumar
[eksuˈmaɾ]
The verdict
“exhumar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #67,730 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,730
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sacar de la tierra un cadáver o restos humanos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-exhumar · exhumar · Spanish
exhumar · rank #67,730 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,730
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH excluya
Nearest frequency peer: excluya (-2 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 “exhumar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- evalúen
evalúen
32,274 corpus weight
- excluya
excluya
32,273 corpus weight
- exhumar
exhumar
32,271 corpus weight
- expatriado
expatriado
32,268 corpus weight
- explicaste
explicaste
32,267 corpus weight
- explicativas
explicativas
32,266 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “exhumar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exhumar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [eksuˈmaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,730 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “exhumar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
exhumar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #67,730 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [eksuˈmaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for exhumar, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is exhumar, spelled E-X-H-U-M-A-R.
Definition
- 1Sacar de la tierra un cadáver o restos humanos.
- 2Sacar de la tierra objetos antiguos, monedas, restos de edificios, etc.
- 3Mostrar lo que estaba olvidado.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how exhumar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
¿Y por qué exhumó usted ese cadáver y no otro más antiguo?
tres amigos que habían viajado juntos a Italia, visitaban el año pasado el museo Studii de Nápoles donde se hallan reunidos los diversos objetos antiguos exhumados de las excavaciones de Pompeya y Herculano.
This word in other languages
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).