prohibir
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,104
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
prohibir is aSpanishverb. It means: Negar el permiso o la posibilidad para la ejecución de una acción (o modo de obrar) o para el uso, consumo o presencia de algo en determinadas circunstancias. Pronounced [pɾojˈβ̞iɾ]. It ranks #6,104 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with prohíbe and prohíba.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prohibir |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [pɾojˈβ̞iɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,104 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for prohibir is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pɾojˈβ̞iɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,104 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for prohibir, with forms such as "porhibir", "pprohibir", and "prhoibir". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "prohíbe", "prohíba", "prohibió", 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 prohibir, spelled P-R-O-H-I-B-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Negar el permiso o la posibilidad para la ejecución de una acción (o modo de obrar) o para el uso, consumo o presencia de algo en determinadas circunstancias.
- 2Negar el consumo de algún alimento como parte de un tratamiento médico.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: porhibir,pprohibir,prhoibir,prohbiir,prohhibir,prohibbir,prohibirr,prohibri,prohiibr,prohivir,proihbir,prrohibir,rpohibir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for prohibir
Misspelling Variants of "prohibir"
Frequency rank: #6,104 in Spanish
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