nivelar
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#42,047
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
nivelar is aSpanishverb. It means: Hacer que una superficie o plano quede en perfecta posición horizontal. Pronounced [niβ̞eˈlaɾ]. Often confused with novela and niveles.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nivelar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [niβ̞eˈlaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #42,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for nivelar is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [niβ̞eˈlaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #42,047 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 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for nivelar, with forms such as "invelar", "nibelar", and "nievlar". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "novela", "niveles", "novelas", 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 nivelar, spelled N-I-V-E-L-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Hacer que una superficie o plano quede en perfecta posición horizontal.
- 2Hacer que dos cosas queden a la misma altura.
- 3Hacer que la tierra, el suelo o alguna superficie queden parejos o lisos, sin altos ni bajos, sin cuestas ni huecos.
- 4Poner un ser (material o inmaterial) al mismo nivel o en igualdad con otro. Hacerlos iguales en categoría, condición, apariencia o características.
- 5Emplear el nivel (instrumento) para establecer si algo está en la posición horizontal justa.
- 6Establecer la diferencia de altura que hay entre dos puntos de un terreno.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: invelar,nibelar,nievlar,nivealr,nivelarr,nivellar,nivelra,nivlear,nivvelar,nnivelar,nvielar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for nivelar
Misspelling Variants of "nivelar"
Frequency rank: #42,047 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter N in our Spanish index: