limpiar
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,569
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
limpiar is aSpanishverb. It means: Sacar la suciedad que hay en algo. Pronounced [lĩmˈpjaɾ]. It ranks #3,569 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with limpio and limpias.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | limpiar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [lĩmˈpjaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,569 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for limpiar is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [lĩmˈpjaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,569 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for limpiar, with forms such as "ilmpiar", "limipar", and "limmpiar". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "limpio", "limpias", "limpios", 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 limpiar, spelled L-I-M-P-I-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sacar la suciedad que hay en algo.
- 2Arrancar la vegetación silvestre de un terreno.
- 3Dejar a una persona sin dinero en un juego de naipes u otra clase de apuestas.
- 4Hurtar₁.
- 5Asesinar.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ilmpiar,limipar,limmpiar,limpair,limpiarr,limpira,limppiar,lipmiar,llimpiar,lmipiar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for limpiar
Misspelling Variants of "limpiar"
Frequency rank: #3,569 in Spanish
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