pujar
[puˈxaɾ]
The verdict
“pujar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #55,156 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,156
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hacer esfuerzos para avanzar o continuar venciendo una resistencia.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pujar · pujar · Spanish
pujar · rank #55,156 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,156
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pujas
Nearest frequency peer: pujas (+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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “pujar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- prurito
prurito
44,847 corpus weight
- pujar
pujar
44,845 corpus weight
- pujas
pujas
44,844 corpus weight
- puri
puri
44,843 corpus weight
- putazos
putazos
44,842 corpus weight
- quedábamos
quedábamos
44,841 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “pujar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pujar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [puˈxaɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,156 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “pujar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
pujar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #55,156 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [puˈxaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hacer esfuerzos para avanzar o continuar venciendo una resistencia.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pujar in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is pujar, spelled P-U-J-A-R.
Definition
- 1Hacer esfuerzos para avanzar o continuar venciendo una resistencia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pujar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
y sentadito en la popa del barco, fijaba en la costa de su patria los ojos anegados de tan triste manera, que a pesar del águila nueva que llevaba en el alma, le parecía que iba todo muerto y sin capacidad de resurrección y que era él como un árbol prendido a aquella costa por las raíces, al que el buque llevaba atado por las ramas pujando mar afuera.
y el mozo, que se llamaba Tomás, empezó a suspirar profundo cada vez que miraba a la Camarona inclinada hacia el remo y enarcando el brazo para pujar firme.
Synonyms
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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