hurtar
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#77,345
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
hurtar is aSpanishverb. It means: Quitar o tomar para sí lo ajeno sin emplear violencia. Pronounced [uɾˈt̪aɾ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hurtar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [uɾˈt̪aɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,345 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for hurtar is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [uɾˈt̪aɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #77,345 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for hurtar 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 hurtar, spelled H-U-R-T-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Quitar o tomar para sí lo ajeno sin emplear violencia.
- 2Estafar en el peso o volumen en una transacción comercial.
- 3Llevar el agua las tierras de la costa por erosión.
- 4Desviar, apartar.
- 5Tomar dichos, sentencias y versos ajenos, dándolos por propios.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #77,345 in Spanish
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