incapacitar

/[ĩŋkapasiˈt̪aɾ]/ verb

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#98,543

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

incapacitar is aSpanishverb. It means: Quitar a una persona su capacidad para realizar una acción o desempeñar una función Pronounced [ĩŋkapasiˈt̪aɾ].

Key facts for incapacitar
PropertyValue
Headwordincapacitar
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ĩŋkapasiˈt̪aɾ]
Letters11
Frequency rank#98,543
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of incapacitar in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for incapacitar is 11 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩŋkapasiˈt̪aɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #98,543 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.

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

Definition

  1. 1
    Quitar a una persona su capacidad para realizar una acción o desempeñar una función
  2. 2
    en Derecho:

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #98,543 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "incapacitar"?
"incapacitar" is spelled I-N-C-A-P-A-C-I-T-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is [ĩŋkapasiˈt̪aɾ].
What does "incapacitar" mean?
As a verb, "incapacitar" means: Quitar a una persona su capacidad para realizar una acción o desempeñar una función
How do you pronounce "incapacitar"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "incapacitar" is [ĩŋkapasiˈt̪aɾ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "incapacitar" 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.