postergar
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#37,792
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
postergar is aSpanishverb. It means: Retrasar algo en el tiempo, dejarlo para más tarde. Pronounced [post̪eɾˈɣ̞aɾ]. Often confused with posterior and postear.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | postergar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [post̪eɾˈɣ̞aɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #37,792 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for postergar is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [post̪eɾˈɣ̞aɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #37,792 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 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for postergar, with forms such as "opstergar", "posetrgar", and "posstergar". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "posterior", "postear", "postergado", 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 postergar, spelled P-O-S-T-E-R-G-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Retrasar algo en el tiempo, dejarlo para más tarde.
- 2Perjudicar a un empleado dando a otro más moderno el ascenso u otra recompensa que por su antigüedad correspondía.
- 3Menospreciar.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: opstergar,posetrgar,posstergar,postegrar,posteragr,postergarr,posterggar,postergra,posterrgar,postregar,posttergar,potsergar,ppostergar,psotergar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for postergar
Misspelling Variants of "postergar"
Frequency rank: #37,792 in Spanish
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