posar
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,563
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
posar is aSpanishverb. It means: Alojarse u hospedarse en una posada o casa particular. Pronounced [poˈsaɾ]. Often confused with post and pose.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | posar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [poˈsaɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #26,563 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for posar is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [poˈsaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #26,563 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 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 posar, with forms such as "opsar", "poasr", and "posarr". 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, "post", "pose", "pour", 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 posar, spelled P-O-S-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Alojarse u hospedarse en una posada o casa particular.
- 2Descansar, asentarse o reposar.
- 3Dicho de un ave o de cualquier otro animal que vuela: Pararse, asentarse en un sitio o lugar o sobre una cosa después de haber volado.
- 4Morar, habitar.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: opsar,poasr,posarr,posra,possar,pposar,psoar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for posar
Misspelling Variants of "posar"
Frequency rank: #26,563 in Spanish
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