lavar
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,556
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lavar is aSpanishverb. It means: Limpiar con un medio líquido, especialmente con agua. Pronounced [laˈβ̞aɾ]. It ranks #6,556 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with lavo and liar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lavar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [laˈβ̞aɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,556 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for lavar is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [laˈβ̞aɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,556 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for lavar, with forms such as "alvar", "laavr", and "labar". 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, "lavo", "liar", "leva", 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 lavar, spelled L-A-V-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Limpiar con un medio líquido, especialmente con agua.
- 2Quitar de algo una mácula, labe, tacha, defecto o impureza.
- 3Hacer que el dinero obtenido por medio ilegales circule de manera fiscalmente legal.
- 4Pulir o bruñir con un paño mojado el acabado de las paredes o blanqueo.
- 5Dar color con tintes diluidos en agua (con aguadas).
- 6Sacar los elementos no deseados de un mineral usando agua o medios líquidos.
- 7Disminuir el color, vigor u otra propiedad importante de algo, generalmente por la acción del agua, del tiempo o del uso.
- 8Mojar excesivamente la yerba del mate, de tal modo que esta pierda su sabor.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: alvar,laavr,labar,lavarr,lavra,lavvar,llavar,lvaar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lavar
Misspelling Variants of "lavar"
Frequency rank: #6,556 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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