jugar
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#790
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
jugar is aSpanishverb. It means: Hacer algo con el alegría y con el solo fin de divertirse o entretenerse. Pronounced [xuˈɣ̞aɾ]. It ranks #790 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with jugo and jura.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jugar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [xuˈɣ̞aɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #790 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for jugar is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [xuˈɣ̞aɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #790 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for jugar, with forms such as "jguar", "jjugar", and "juagr". 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, "jugo", "jura", "juzga", 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 jugar, spelled J-U-G-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Hacer algo con el alegría y con el solo fin de divertirse o entretenerse.
- 2Travesear, retozar.
- 3Entretenerse, divertirse tomando en uno de los juegos sometidos a reglas, ya medie o no el interés.
- 4Tomar parte en uno de los juegos sometidos a reglas, no para divertirse, sino para satisfacer inclinación viciosa o con el solo fin de ganar dinero.
- 5Llevar a cabo el jugador un acto propio del juego cada vez que le toca intervenir en él.
- 6En ciertos juegos de naipes, entrar₁₃.
- 7Burlarse de alguien.
- 8Ponerse una cosa que consta de piezas en movimiento o ejercicio para el objeto a que está destinada; p. ej.: las máquinas, las tramoyas en los teatros, etc.
- 9Dicho de un arma blanca o de fuego: Emplearla con el objetivo a que está destinada.
- 10Hacer juego.
- 11Intervenir o tener parte en un negocio.
- 12Finalizar, concretar, terminar.
- 13Dicho de un animal: Copular.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: jguar,jjugar,juagr,jugarr,juggar,jugra,ujgar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for jugar
Misspelling Variants of "jugar"
Frequency rank: #790 in Spanish
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