pescar
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,537
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pescar is aSpanishverb. It means: Atrapar peces del agua o, al menos, intentar hacerlo con finalidades alimenticias o deportivas Pronounced [pesˈkaɾ]. Often confused with pisar and picar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pescar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [pesˈkaɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,537 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pescar is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pesˈkaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #13,537 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for pescar, with forms such as "epscar", "pecsar", and "pesacr". 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, "pisar", "picar", "posar", 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 pescar, spelled P-E-S-C-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Atrapar peces del agua o, al menos, intentar hacerlo con finalidades alimenticias o deportivas
- 2Sorprender a alguien haciendo algo reprobable
- 3Adquirir inesperadamente una enfermedad
- 4Tomar en cuenta a alguien o a algo, prestar atención a alguien o a algo
- 5En el juego del truco, no cantar los tantos cuando se tiene muchos puntos, para esperar a ver si el rival los canta durante su primer turno para así pillarlo desprevenido y redoblar la apuesta; en donde, a su vez, se corre el riesgo de que el rival tampoco cante el envido y se pierda la oportunidad de ganar puntos en esa mano.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epscar,pecsar,pesacr,pescarr,pesccar,pescra,pesscar,ppescar,psecar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "pescar"
Frequency rank: #13,537 in Spanish
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