rancar

/[rãŋˈkaɾ]/ verb

Letters

6 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

rancar is aSpanishverb. It means: Variante anticuada de arrancar (sacar de raíz y, por extensión, quitar con violencia). Pronounced [rãŋˈkaɾ].

Key facts for rancar
PropertyValue
Headwordrancar
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA[rãŋˈkaɾ]
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

rancar is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for rancar is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [rãŋˈkaɾ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Variante anticuada de arrancar (sacar de raíz y, por extensión, quitar con violencia).".

No misspelling variants are generated for rancar in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 rancar, spelled R-A-N-C-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Variante anticuada de arrancar (sacar de raíz y, por extensión, quitar con violencia).

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rancar"?
"rancar" is spelled R-A-N-C-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is [rãŋˈkaɾ].
What does "rancar" mean?
As a verb, "rancar" means: Variante anticuada de arrancar (sacar de raíz y, por extensión, quitar con violencia).
How do you pronounce "rancar"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rancar" is [rãŋˈkaɾ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rancar" come from?
"rancar" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.