explorar
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,527
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
explorar is aSpanishverb. It means: Observar, registrar, investigar sobre un lugar, situación u objeto. Pronounced [eksploˈɾaɾ]. It ranks #6,527 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with explota and explore.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | explorar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [eksploˈɾaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,527 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for explorar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eksploˈɾaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,527 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 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for explorar, with forms such as "epxlorar", "exlporar", and "expllorar". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "explota", "explore", "explotar", 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 explorar, spelled E-X-P-L-O-R-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Observar, registrar, investigar sobre un lugar, situación u objeto.
- 2Hacer observaciones relacionadas con un problema claramente definido con el propósito de ayudar a determinar el diseño de una investigación, los metódos de adquisición de datos y selección de sujetos, etc.
- 3Realizar una serie de observaciones metódicas para diagnosticar a un paciente.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epxlorar,exlporar,expllorar,exploarr,explorarr,explorra,explorrar,explroar,expolrar,expplorar,exxplorar,xeplorar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for explorar
Misspelling Variants of "explorar"
Frequency rank: #6,527 in Spanish
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