pare
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,289
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pare is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de parar. Pronounced [ˈpaɾe]. It ranks #8,289 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with pe and por.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pare |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpaɾe] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #8,289 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pare is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpaɾe]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,289 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for pare, with forms such as "apre", "paer", and "parre". 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, "pe", "por", "paz", 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 pare, spelled P-A-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de parar.
- 2Señal convencional de tráfico, representada normalmente por un cartel octogonal de color rojo con la inscripción «PARE» en letras blancas, que indica al conductor que debe detener completamente la marcha.
- 3Acción de generar deliberadamente una reacción de enojo o indignación en otro.
- 4Acción de pactar que quien tenga razón sobre algo que aún no se sabe o que está en duda, reciba un pago o compensación por haber acertado.
- 5Ayuda que se le brinda a alguien.
- 6Mecanismo que detiene o corta una acción mecánica.^([cita requerida]).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apre,paer,parre,ppare,prae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pare
Misspelling Variants of "pare"
Frequency rank: #8,289 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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