postular
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,939
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
postular is aSpanishverb. It means: Pedir, pretender. Pronounced [post̪uˈlaɾ]. Often confused with postura and póstuma.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | postular |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [post̪uˈlaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for postular is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [post̪uˈlaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #18,939 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 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for postular, with forms such as "opstular", "posstular", and "postluar". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "postura", "póstuma", "posturas", 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 postular, spelled P-O-S-T-U-L-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pedir, pretender.
- 2Pedir por la calle en una colecta.
- 3Enunciar un postulado.
- 4Proponer un candidato para un cargo electivo.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: opstular,posstular,postluar,posttular,postualr,postularr,postullar,postulra,posutlar,potsular,ppostular,psotular
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for postular
Misspelling Variants of "postular"
Frequency rank: #18,939 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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