probar
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,994
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
probar is aSpanishverb. It means: Estudiar el funcionamiento o las cualidades de algo. Pronounced [pɾoˈβ̞aɾ]. It ranks #1,994 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with prosa and probé.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | probar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [pɾoˈβ̞aɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,994 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for probar is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pɾoˈβ̞aɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,994 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for probar, with forms such as "porbar", "pprobar", and "prboar". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "prosa", "probé", "probo", 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 probar, spelled P-R-O-B-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Estudiar el funcionamiento o las cualidades de algo.
- 2Ingerir una pequeña cantidad de comida o bebida para conocer su sabor, olor, textura y otras cualidades organolépticas.
- 3Hablando de la ropa, ponérsela para ver sus medidas, comodidad y aspecto.
- 4Someter a examen o ejercicios a una persona, para ver sus reacciones y respuestas.
- 5Presentar hechos o argumentos irrefutables, que demuestran la veracidad o falsedad de algo.
- 6Utilizar algo por un tiempo, generalmente breve, para luego dejarlo.
- 7Emprender una actividad para experimentar la novedad.
- 8Declararse conforme con algo, dar la aprobación.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: porbar,pprobar,prboar,proabr,probarr,probbar,probra,provar,prrobar,rpobar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for probar
Misspelling Variants of "probar"
Frequency rank: #1,994 in Spanish
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