inculcar
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#30,959
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
inculcar is aSpanishverb. It means: Apretar o presionar una cosa contra otra. Pronounced [ĩŋkulˈkaɾ]. Often confused with insular and insultar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inculcar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ĩŋkulˈkaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #30,959 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for inculcar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩŋkulˈkaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #30,959 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 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 inculcar, with forms such as "icnulcar", "incculcar", and "inclucar". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "insular", "insultar", 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 inculcar, spelled I-N-C-U-L-C-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Apretar o presionar una cosa contra otra.
- 2Manifestar con repetida insistencia algo, para que se quede en la memoria de alguien.
- 3Enseñar y fomentar con empeño la práctica de valores, actitudes, ideales o comportamientos que se consideran deseables.
- 4Poner las letras demasiado juntas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: icnulcar,incculcar,inclucar,incuclar,inculacr,inculcarr,inculccar,inculcra,incullcar,innculcar,inuclcar,niculcar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for inculcar
Misspelling Variants of "inculcar"
Frequency rank: #30,959 in Spanish
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