inhibir
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#38,765
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
inhibir is aSpanishverb. It means: Reprimir, impedir la manifestación de una reacción o conducta fisiológica o psicológica. Pronounced [ĩniˈβ̞iɾ]. Often confused with inhibe and incidir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inhibir |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ĩniˈβ̞iɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #38,765 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for inhibir is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩniˈβ̞iɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #38,765 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for inhibir, with forms such as "ihnibir", "inhbiir", and "inhhibir". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "inhibe", "incidir", "inhibidor", 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 inhibir, spelled I-N-H-I-B-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Reprimir, impedir la manifestación de una reacción o conducta fisiológica o psicológica.
- 2Prohibir o impedir que alguien haga alguna cosa.
- 3En un juicio, impedir la participación de un juez en una causa.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ihnibir,inhbiir,inhhibir,inhibbir,inhibirr,inhibri,inhiibr,inhivir,inihbir,innhibir,nihibir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for inhibir
Misspelling Variants of "inhibir"
Frequency rank: #38,765 in Spanish
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