gestar
[xesˈt̪aɾ]
The verdict
“gestar” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #49,676. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,676
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Llevar el embrión (y luego feto) en el útero y sustentarlo desde la concepción hasta el parto.
Corpus desk
Index ES-gestar · gestar · Spanish
gestar · rank #49,676 · 9 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,676
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH germánica
Nearest frequency peer: germánica (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “gestar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- gastronómic…
gastronómicas
50,328 corpus weight
- Genil
Genil
50,327 corpus weight
- germánica
germánica
50,326 corpus weight
- gestar
gestar
50,325 corpus weight
- Giulio
Giulio
50,324 corpus weight
- gorrito
gorrito
50,320 corpus weight
What this shows “gestar” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gestar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [xesˈt̪aɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #49,676 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “gestar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around gestar (IPA [xesˈt̪aɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #49,676 among 1,728 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for gestar, with forms such as "egstar", "gesatr", and "gesstar". 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. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "gusta", "gesto", "gustan", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is gestar, spelled G-E-S-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1Llevar el embrión (y luego feto) en el útero y sustentarlo desde la concepción hasta el parto.
- 2Por analogía, llevar o dar forma y existencia a algo desde su idea o concepto inicial hasta su posterior desarrollo o realización.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gestar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
se aprecia que 11% de las adolescentes tienen un hijo o gestan por primera vez, y un 1 ,4% tiene dos hijos o tiene uno y está gestando el segundo
han surgido elementos innovadores en el ejercicio gubernamental, en el que se está gestando una nueva relación entre las autoridades y la sociedad
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egstar
- gesatr
- gesstar
- gestarr
- gestra
- gesttar
- getsar
- ggestar
- gsetar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gestar - 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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gestar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).