jurar
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,462
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
jurar is aSpanishverb. It means: Afirmar o negar alguna cosa poniendo a Dios por testigo, o invocando alguna cosa sagrada. Pronounced [xuˈɾaɾ]. Often confused with juro and Jure.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jurar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [xuˈɾaɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for jurar is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [xuˈɾaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #17,462 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for jurar, with forms such as "jjurar", "jruar", and "juarr". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "juro", "Jure", "juzgar", 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 jurar, spelled J-U-R-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Afirmar o negar alguna cosa poniendo a Dios por testigo, o invocando alguna cosa sagrada.
- 2Reconocer con juramento la soberanía de alguno o protestar obediencia a las instituciones, cumplimiento fiel de algún cargo, etc.
- 3Aseverar, afirmar algo.
- 4Resolver irrevocablemente una cosa.
- 5Declarar, profesar públicamente odio o amistad.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: jjurar,jruar,juarr,jurarr,jurrar,ujrar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for jurar
Misspelling Variants of "jurar"
Frequency rank: #17,462 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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