importunar

/[ĩmpoɾt̪uˈnaɾ]/ verb

Letters

10 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

importunar is aSpanishverb. It means: Molestar con repetidas pretensiones, preguntas, etc. Pronounced [ĩmpoɾt̪uˈnaɾ].

Key facts for importunar
PropertyValue
Headwordimportunar
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ĩmpoɾt̪uˈnaɾ]
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

importunar is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for importunar is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩmpoɾt̪uˈnaɾ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Molestar con repetidas pretensiones, preguntas, etc.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for importunar 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 importunar, spelled I-M-P-O-R-T-U-N-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Molestar con repetidas pretensiones, preguntas, etc.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "importunar"?
"importunar" is spelled I-M-P-O-R-T-U-N-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is [ĩmpoɾt̪uˈnaɾ].
What does "importunar" mean?
As a verb, "importunar" means: Molestar con repetidas pretensiones, preguntas, etc.
How do you pronounce "importunar"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "importunar" is [ĩmpoɾt̪uˈnaɾ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "importunar" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.