existir
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,119
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
existir is aSpanishverb. It means: Tener realidad; ser real o verdadero; tener existencia. Pronounced [eksisˈt̪iɾ]. It ranks #3,119 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with existo and existirá.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | existir |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [eksisˈt̪iɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,119 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for existir is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eksisˈt̪iɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,119 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 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 existir, with forms such as "eixstir", "exisitr", and "exisstir". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "existo", "existirá", "existiría", 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 existir, spelled E-X-I-S-T-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tener realidad; ser real o verdadero; tener existencia.
- 2(con un complemento de lugar) Encontrarse o tener presencia en un sitio determinado.
- 3Estar vivo, poseer vida, vivir.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eixstir,exisitr,exisstir,existirr,existri,existtir,exitsir,exsitir,exxistir,xeistir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for existir
Misspelling Variants of "existir"
Frequency rank: #3,119 in Spanish
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