rastrillar
The verdict
“rastrillar” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 10
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Recoger con el rastro la parva en las eras o la hierba segada en los prados.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rastrillar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [rast̪ɾiˈʝaɾ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rastrillar” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for rastrillar is 10 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [rast̪ɾiˈʝaɾ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for rastrillar 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 rastrillar, spelled R-A-S-T-R-I-L-L-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Recoger con el rastro la parva en las eras o la hierba segada en los prados.
- 2Pasar la rastra por los sembrados.
- 3Limpiar de hierba con el rastrillo las calles de los parques y jardines.
- 4Limpiar el lino o cáñamo de la arista y estopa.
- 5Encender un fósforo.
- 6En operaciones militares o policiales, asegurar, inspeccionar o despejar una zona despoblada.
- 7Robar a una persona ebria mientras está dormida.
- 8Robar en el barrio propio.
- 9Accionar el gatillo de un arma sin disparar el proyectil.
- 10Quitar el seguro de un arma, tal que quede lista para disparar.
- 11Cargar un fusil con el cerrojo.
- 12Censurar el comportamiento de otro recurriendo a indirectas.
- 13Reprochar.
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Using “rastrillar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is R-A-S-T-R-I-L-L-A-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [rast̪ɾiˈʝaɾ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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