mejorar
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,250
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
mejorar is aSpanishverb. It means: Adelantar, acrecentar una cosa, haciédola pasar de un estado bueno a otro mejor. Pronounced [mexoˈɾaɾ]. It ranks #1,250 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with mejoro and mejoras.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mejorar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [mexoˈɾaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,250 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mejorar is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [mexoˈɾaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,250 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 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for mejorar, with forms such as "emjorar", "mejjorar", and "mejoarr". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "mejoro", "mejoras", "mejoría", 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 mejorar, spelled M-E-J-O-R-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Adelantar, acrecentar una cosa, haciédola pasar de un estado bueno a otro mejor.
- 2Pujar.
- 3Dejar en el testamento mejora a uno o varios de los hijos o nietos.
- 4Ir cobrando la salud perdida; restablecerse en ella.
- 5Ponerse el tiempo más favorable, más benigno.
- 6Ponerse en lugar o grado ventajoso al que antes se tenía.
- 7Operación que tiene por objeto aumentar o disminuir la frescura o humedad de la tierra, modificar ésta con la adición de tierras; aumentar o disminuir su consistencia, tenacidad, etc. También consiste en aumentar la fecundidad de las tierras con la adición de elementos minerales u orgánicos indispensables para el crecimiento de las plantas.
- 8Avanzar o cambiar ventajosamente el orden o disposición de combate.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emjorar,mejjorar,mejoarr,mejorarr,mejorra,mejorrar,mejroar,meojrar,mjeorar,mmejorar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mejorar
Misspelling Variants of "mejorar"
Frequency rank: #1,250 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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