rastrear
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,461
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
rastrear is aSpanishverb. It means: Seguir el rastro o búscar alguna cosa por él. Pronounced [rast̪ɾeˈaɾ]. Often confused with rastreo and rastrero.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rastrear |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [rast̪ɾeˈaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,461 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for rastrear is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [rast̪ɾeˈaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,461 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for rastrear, with forms such as "arstrear", "rasrtear", and "rasstrear". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "rastreo", "rastrero", "rastrea", 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 rastrear, spelled R-A-S-T-R-E-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Seguir el rastro o búscar alguna cosa por él.
- 2Vender la carne en el rastro al por mayor.
- 3Someter a examinación una zona determinada en busca de alguna evidencia.
- 4Inquirir, indagar y averiguar alguna cosa, discurriendo por conjeturas o señales.
- 5Ir o caminar por el aire pero casi tocando el suelo.
- 6Arrastrar una rastra por el fondo del mar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: arstrear,rasrtear,rasstrear,rasterar,rastraer,rastrearr,rastrera,rastrrear,rasttrear,ratsrear,rrastrear,rsatrear
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rastrear
Misspelling Variants of "rastrear"
Frequency rank: #12,461 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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