gemir
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#38,722
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
gemir is aSpanishverb. It means: Expresar su sufrimiento, pena o dolor por medio de sonidos quejumbrosos y lastimeros. Pronounced [xeˈmiɾ]. Often confused with ger and genio.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gemir |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [xeˈmiɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #38,722 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for gemir is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [xeˈmiɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #38,722 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for gemir, with forms such as "egmir", "geimr", and "gemirr". 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, "ger", "genio", "Gemma", 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 gemir, spelled G-E-M-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Expresar su sufrimiento, pena o dolor por medio de sonidos quejumbrosos y lastimeros.
- 2Sonido similar al del sufrimiento, pero de gozo, emitido durante el coito.
- 3Emitir algo un sonido similar al gemido humano.
- 4Emitir un animal un aullido similar al gemido humano.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: egmir,geimr,gemirr,gemmir,gemri,ggemir,gmeir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gemir
Misspelling Variants of "gemir"
Frequency rank: #38,722 in Spanish
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