permitir
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,411
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
permitir is aSpanishverb. It means: Dar su consentimiento quien tenga autoridad competente, para que otros hagan de dejen de hacer algo. Pronounced [peɾmiˈt̪iɾ]. It ranks #2,411 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with permito and permitirá.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | permitir |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [peɾmiˈt̪iɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,411 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for permitir is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [peɾmiˈt̪iɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,411 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for permitir, with forms such as "eprmitir", "pemritir", and "perimtir". 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, "permito", "permitirá", "persistir", 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 permitir, spelled P-E-R-M-I-T-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dar su consentimiento quien tenga autoridad competente, para que otros hagan de dejen de hacer algo.
- 2No impedir lo que se pudiera o debiera evitar.
- 3En las escuelas y en la oratoria, conceder algo como si fuese verdadero, o por no hacer al caso de la cuestión o asunto principal, o por la facilidad con que se comprende su respuesta o solución.
- 4No impedir Dios algo malo, aunque sin voluntad directa de ello.
- 5Posibilitar, facilitar, viabilizar.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eprmitir,pemritir,perimtir,permiitr,permitirr,permitri,permittir,permmitir,permtiir,perrmitir,ppermitir,premitir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for permitir
Misspelling Variants of "permitir"
Frequency rank: #2,411 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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