hender
[ẽn̪ˈd̪eɾ]
The verdict
“hender” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cortar profundamente un cuerpo sólido sin partirlo del todo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-hender · hender · Spanish
hender · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hender |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽn̪ˈd̪eɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “hender” en español
Rare enough to double-check
hender is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ẽn̪ˈd̪eɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hender, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is hender, spelled H-E-N-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Cortar profundamente un cuerpo sólido sin partirlo del todo.
- 2Atravesar un cuerpo líquido o gaseoso o cortar su superficie.
- 3Abrirse paso entre una multitud de cosas o personas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hender appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Y para en argumento de la estimación que de los españoles tenía, llegóse a Vasco Núñez y pónele la mano a la espada diciendo: ‘¿Quién contra esta macana(o como allí se llamaba), que de un golpe hiende un hombre por medio , ha de pensar prevalecer, si no fuero alguno que no tuviere seso?
el canto intermitente del aserradero que hendía el aire hasta las casas cuando la tarde era muy límpida
This word in other languages
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