impugnar
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#25,667
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
impugnar is aSpanishverb. It means: Contraponerse a algo y rebatirlo mediante argumentos razonables. Pronounced [ĩmpuɣ̞ˈnaɾ]. Often confused with imputar and impulsar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impugnar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ĩmpuɣ̞ˈnaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #25,667 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for impugnar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩmpuɣ̞ˈnaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #25,667 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for impugnar, with forms such as "immpugnar", "impgunar", and "imppugnar". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "imputar", "impulsar", "impugnado", 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 impugnar, spelled I-M-P-U-G-N-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Contraponerse a algo y rebatirlo mediante argumentos razonables.
- 2Rechazar, no aceptar o solicitar la anulación de una decisión por juzgarla falsa, ilegal o injusta.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: immpugnar,impgunar,imppugnar,impuganr,impuggnar,impugnarr,impugnnar,impugnra,impungar,imupgnar,ipmugnar,mipugnar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for impugnar
Misspelling Variants of "impugnar"
Frequency rank: #25,667 in Spanish
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