imponer
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,715
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
imponer is aSpanishverb. It means: Poner a alguien en la obligación de cumplir con una carga, impuesto, trabajo, deber u otra exigencia. Pronounced [ĩmpoˈneɾ]. It ranks #4,715 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with impune and impunes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | imponer |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ĩmpoˈneɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,715 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for imponer is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩmpoˈneɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,715 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for imponer, with forms such as "immponer", "imopner", and "impnoer". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "impune", "impunes", "imponga", 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 imponer, spelled I-M-P-O-N-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Poner a alguien en la obligación de cumplir con una carga, impuesto, trabajo, deber u otra exigencia.
- 2Causar una fuerte impresión.
- 3Causar temor o respeto.
- 4Poner a alguien al corriente de un nuevo trabajo, ocupaciones o novedades.
- 5Darle un nombre a un recién nacido, a un nuevo miembro de una religión o, en algunas sociedades, al joven que se hace adulto.
- 6Hablando de las manos, en algunas creencias o religiones, apoyarlas el sacerdote o iniciado sobre alguna parte del cuerpo del creyente para sanarlo mágicamente.
- 7En diversas ceremonias de carácter mágico o religioso, apoyar un objeto sobre el creyente y transmitirle su poder mágico de sanación u otro.
- 8Poner una suma de dinero en un banco.
- 9Hablando de una condecoración, medalla o similar, dársela, otorgársela a una persona destacada.
- 10Hablando de un gobierno dictatorial, implantarlo por la fuerza.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: immponer,imopner,impnoer,impoenr,imponerr,imponner,imponre,impponer,ipmoner,miponer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for imponer
Misspelling Variants of "imponer"
Frequency rank: #4,715 in Spanish
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