herrar
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6 characters
Language
Spanish
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herrar is aSpanishverb. It means: Poner, clavar o adherir, a modo de protección, las herraduras (piezas en forma de "U") a los cascos de caballerías o los callos (chapas de refuerzo) a las pezuñas de reses y vacunos. Pronounced [eˈraɾ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | herrar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [eˈraɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for herrar is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eˈraɾ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for herrar in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 herrar, spelled H-E-R-R-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Poner, clavar o adherir, a modo de protección, las herraduras (piezas en forma de "U") a los cascos de caballerías o los callos (chapas de refuerzo) a las pezuñas de reses y vacunos.
- 2Marcar o señalar con un fierro o hierro candente, generalmente a animales u objetos, para indicar su origen, propiedad, o distinción. En el pasado, se hacía también con algunos seres humanos (esclavos, delincuentes, pecadores y otros).
- 3Cubrir, reforzar, guarnecer o revestir con hierro.
- 4Poner a alguien ciertos objetos de hierro diseñados para apresar o impedir el movimiento libre, tales como grillos, cadenas, etc.
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