expectorar

/[ekspekt̪oˈɾaɾ]/ verb

Letters

10 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

expectorar is aSpanishverb. It means: Arrancar y arrojar por la boca las flemas y secreciones que se depositan en la faringe, la laringe, la tráquea o los bronquios. Pronounced [ekspekt̪oˈɾaɾ].

Key facts for expectorar
PropertyValue
Headwordexpectorar
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ekspekt̪oˈɾaɾ]
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

expectorar is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for expectorar is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ekspekt̪oˈɾaɾ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Arrancar y arrojar por la boca las flemas y secreciones que se depositan en la faringe, la laringe, la tráquea o los bronquios.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for expectorar 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 expectorar, spelled E-X-P-E-C-T-O-R-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Arrancar y arrojar por la boca las flemas y secreciones que se depositan en la faringe, la laringe, la tráquea o los bronquios.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "expectorar"?
"expectorar" is spelled E-X-P-E-C-T-O-R-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is [ekspekt̪oˈɾaɾ].
What does "expectorar" mean?
As a verb, "expectorar" means: Arrancar y arrojar por la boca las flemas y secreciones que se depositan en la faringe, la laringe, la tráquea o los bronquios.
How do you pronounce "expectorar"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "expectorar" is [ekspekt̪oˈɾaɾ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "expectorar" 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.