persignarse
The verdict
“persignarse” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Trazar una cruz sobre uno mismo (tocarse con los dedos de la mano derecha sucesivamente la frente, el pecho y cada hombro) como oración o invocación al dios de los cristianos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | persignarse |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [peɾsiɣ̞ˈnaɾse] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “persignarse” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for persignarse is 11 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [peɾsiɣ̞ˈnaɾse]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for persignarse in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 persignarse, spelled P-E-R-S-I-G-N-A-R-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Trazar una cruz sobre uno mismo (tocarse con los dedos de la mano derecha sucesivamente la frente, el pecho y cada hombro) como oración o invocación al dios de los cristianos.
- 2Hacer la señal de la cruz sobre uno mismo e invocar al mismo tiempo a las tres personas de la Santísima Trinidad (el Padre al tocar la frente, el Hijo al tocar el pecho, y el Espíritu Santo al tocar los hombros).
- 3Hacer la señal de la cruz tres veces sucesivas, una en la frente, otra en la boca y otra en el pecho, pidiendo la protección del dios de los cristianos.
- 4Manifestar rechazo, sorpresa o extrañeza frente a algo, al considerarlo muy raro, escandaloso o indeseable.
- 5Comenzar una labor cotidiana, especialmente vender (en referencia al hábito de persignarse₁ al iniciar labores o viajes).
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Using “persignarse”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-E-R-S-I-G-N-A-R-S-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [peɾsiɣ̞ˈnaɾse] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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