inspirar
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,997
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
inspirar is aSpanishverb. It means: Llevar aire a los pulmones. Pronounced [ĩnspiˈɾaɾ]. Often confused with inspire and inspiraron.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inspirar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ĩnspiˈɾaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,997 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for inspirar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩnspiˈɾaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #17,997 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for inspirar, with forms such as "innspirar", "inpsirar", and "insiprar". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "inspire", "inspiraron", "inspirarse", and more, 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 inspirar, spelled I-N-S-P-I-R-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Llevar aire a los pulmones.
- 2Aspirar una sustancia suspendida en el aire, como el humo, o algún gas o mezcla de gases y sustancias suspendidas en él.
- 3Causar una impresión, sensación o sentimiento.
- 4Producir impresiones, sensaciones o sentimientos que impulsan al artista a crear.
- 5Tener influencia en un estilo o forma de hacer las cosas, porque se copia en algunos aspectos, o se le imita en cierto grado.
- 6Iluminar Dios a alguien para que actúe de manera virtuosa.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: innspirar,inpsirar,insiprar,inspiarr,inspirarr,inspirrar,insppirar,inspriar,insspirar,isnpirar,nispirar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for inspirar
Misspelling Variants of "inspirar"
Frequency rank: #17,997 in Spanish
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