expropiar
[ekspɾoˈpjaɾ]
The verdict
“expropiar” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #37,088 in Spanish word frequency and used as a verb.
- #37,088
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Desposeer de una cosa a su propietario, dándole en cambio una indemnización. Se efectúa legalmente por motivos de utilidad pública.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | expropiar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ekspɾoˈpjaɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #37,088 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “expropiar” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for expropiar is 9 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ekspɾoˈpjaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #37,088 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Desposeer de una cosa a su propietario, dándole en cambio una indemnización. Se efectúa legalmente por motivos de utilidad pública.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for expropiar, with forms such as "epxropiar", "exporpiar", and "exppropiar". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is expropiar, spelled E-X-P-R-O-P-I-A-R.
Definition
- 1Desposeer de una cosa a su propietario, dándole en cambio una indemnización. Se efectúa legalmente por motivos de utilidad pública.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epxropiar,exporpiar,exppropiar,exproipar,expropair,expropiarr,expropira,exproppiar,exprpoiar,exprropiar,exrpopiar,exxpropiar,xepropiar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of expropiar - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “expropiar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is E-X-P-R-O-P-I-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ekspɾoˈpjaɾ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.