recortar
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,194
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
recortar is aSpanishverb. It means: Cortar una porción de algo para algún propósito. Pronounced [rekoɾˈt̪aɾ]. Often confused with recorte and reporta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recortar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [rekoɾˈt̪aɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,194 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for recortar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [rekoɾˈt̪aɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #16,194 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 recortar, with forms such as "ercortar", "rceortar", and "reccortar". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "recorte", "reporta", "recrear", 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 recortar, spelled R-E-C-O-R-T-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cortar una porción de algo para algún propósito.
- 2Cortar el papel, la tela, etc., para obtener una figura o forma deseadas.
- 3Hacer menor el tamaño, la fuerza o la cantidad de algo, sea material o inmaterial.
- 4Destacar el perfil de una figura.
- 5Decir cosas negativas sobre alguien.
- 6Cortar el pelo o el cabello.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ercortar,rceortar,reccortar,recoratr,recorrtar,recortarr,recortra,recorttar,recotrar,recrotar,reocrtar,rrecortar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for recortar
Misspelling Variants of "recortar"
Frequency rank: #16,194 in Spanish
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