precisar
[pɾesiˈsaɾ]
The verdict
“precisar” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #20,164. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,164
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obligar a alguno a la ejecución de alguna cosa.
Corpus desk
Index ES-precisar · precisar · Spanish
precisar · rank #20,164 · 13 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,164
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH porfa
Nearest frequency peer: porfa (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “precisar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- pes
pes
79,840 corpus weight
- plantado
plantado
79,839 corpus weight
- porfa
porfa
79,838 corpus weight
- precisar
precisar
79,837 corpus weight
- predominio
predominio
79,836 corpus weight
- preescolar
preescolar
79,835 corpus weight
What this shows “precisar” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | precisar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [pɾesiˈsaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,164 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “precisar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around precisar (IPA [pɾesiˈsaɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #20,164 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for precisar, with forms such as "percisar", "pprecisar", and "prceisar". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "preciso", "premisa", "procesar", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is precisar, spelled P-R-E-C-I-S-A-R.
Definition
- 1Obligar a alguno a la ejecución de alguna cosa.
- 2Determinar alguna cosa con claridad y distinción.
- 3Necesitar, requerir.
- 4Decir, expresar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how precisar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Podía cosechar grano como para cargar varios barcos, pero no lo necesitaba, así que solo sembraba el que precisaba para alimentarme.
Qué de veces te obligué a precisar una exclamación, un comentario. Tú enmudecías, colérica, presumiendo que me burlaba.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- percisar
- pprecisar
- prceisar
- preccisar
- preciasr
- precisarr
- precisra
- precissar
- precsiar
- preicsar
- presisar
- prrecisar
- rpecisar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of precisar - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "precisar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).