intentar
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,820
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
intentar is aSpanishverb. It means: Prepararse para hacer algo, tomar las medidas necesarias y hacer el esfuerzo para conseguirlo. Pronounced [ĩn̪t̪ẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]. It ranks #1,820 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with intento and intenté.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intentar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ĩn̪t̪ẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for intentar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩn̪t̪ẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,820 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 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 intentar, with forms such as "inetntar", "inntentar", and "intenatr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "intento", "intenté", "inventa", 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 intentar, spelled I-N-T-E-N-T-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Prepararse para hacer algo, tomar las medidas necesarias y hacer el esfuerzo para conseguirlo.
- 2Resolver en el ánimo la ejecución de una cosa.
- 3Poner en práctica la resolución tomada, pero sin proseguirla.
- 4Poner en planta los medios de realizar una cosa.
- 5Presentar una demanda judicial para hacer valer un derecho.
- 6Proponer, deducir el actor su acción en juicio.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: inetntar,inntentar,intenatr,intenntar,intentarr,intentra,intenttar,intetnar,intnetar,inttentar,itnentar,nitentar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for intentar
Misspelling Variants of "intentar"
Frequency rank: #1,820 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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