pecar
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#27,714
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pecar is aSpanishverb. It means: Obrar en contra de ciertas reglas o normas éticas o mandamientos religiosos; cometer un pecado o una infracción; transgredir una prohibición moral. Pronounced [peˈkaɾ]. Often confused with Per and peor.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pecar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [peˈkaɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #27,714 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pecar is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [peˈkaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #27,714 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 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 pecar, with forms such as "epcar", "pcear", and "peacr". 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, "Per", "peor", "pena", 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 pecar, spelled P-E-C-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Obrar en contra de ciertas reglas o normas éticas o mandamientos religiosos; cometer un pecado o una infracción; transgredir una prohibición moral.
- 2Dejar que un impulso, deseo, actitud o afición absorba demasiado la atención, conciencia, modo de ser o tiempo de uno.
- 3No tener el suficiente balance o la justa medida, por exceso o por falta, al obrar o al aplicar algún principio ético, alguna actitud, etc.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epcar,pcear,peacr,pecarr,peccar,pecra,ppecar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pecar
Misspelling Variants of "pecar"
Frequency rank: #27,714 in Spanish
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