minar
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,149
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
minar is aSpanishverb. It means: Abrir caminos o galerías por debajo de tierra. Pronounced [miˈnaɾ]. Often confused with mir and misa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | minar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [miˈnaɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #26,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for minar is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [miˈnaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #26,149 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 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 minar, with forms such as "imnar", "mianr", and "minarr". 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, "mir", "misa", "mini", 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 minar, spelled M-I-N-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Abrir caminos o galerías por debajo de tierra.
- 2Hacer grandes diligencias para conseguir alguna cosa.
- 3Consumir, destruir poco a poco.
- 4Colocar minas explosivas dentro del mar.
- 5Hacer y fabricar minas (hoyos) cavando la tierra y poniendo artificios de pólvora para volar y derribar muros, edificios, etc.
- 6Colocar minas explosivas dentro de la tierra para matar a los que las pisen.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: imnar,mianr,minarr,minnar,minra,mminar,mniar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "minar"
Frequency rank: #26,149 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our Spanish index: