ir
Letters
2 characters
Frequency Rank
#186
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ir is aSpanishverb. It means: Desplazarse de un lugar a otro. Pronounced [ˈiɾ]. It ranks #186 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with is and it.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ir |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈiɾ] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #186 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ir is 2 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈiɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #186 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ir in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "is", "it", "ix", 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 ir, spelled I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Desplazarse de un lugar a otro.
- 2En particular, trasladarse hacia una posición más distante con respecto de quien habla.
- 3Por extensión, dicho de un camino, extenderse hasta un lugar más distante con respecto de quien habla.
- 4Por extensión, extenderse algo de un punto a otro en el espacio o el tiempo.
- 5Por extensión, distinguirse una cosa de otra.
- 6Ir₁ de un lugar a otro y volver al inicial repetidamente.
- 7Combinar o armonizar el aspecto o diseño de una cosa con otra.
- 8Desarrollar una acción cualquiera.
- 9Desempeñar correctamente un aparato la función para la que se está diseñado.
- 10Abocarse expresamente a ganar una mano de un juego.
- 11Desarrollarse una acción de manera continuada (con el gerundio del verbo que expresa aquella).
- 12Experimentar o haber experimentado una determinada acción o situación (con el participio del verbo que expresa aquella).
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Frequency rank: #186 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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