reducir
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,225
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
reducir is aSpanishverb. It means: Volver más pequeño,. Pronounced [reð̞uˈsiɾ]. It ranks #2,225 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with reunir and relucir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reducir |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [reð̞uˈsiɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,225 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for reducir is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [reð̞uˈsiɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,225 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 18 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for reducir, with forms such as "erducir", "rdeucir", and "redcuir". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "reunir", "relucir", "reducto", 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 reducir, spelled R-E-D-U-C-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Volver más pequeño,.
- 2Vencer y someter al adversario, enemigo.
- 3Transformar el aspecto físico de una sustancia o cosa mediante algún procedimiento mecánico o químico.
- 4Cambiar un billete de dinero por varios billetes o monedas con el mismo valor total.
- 5Acortar un discurso, narración o conversación.
- 6Concentrar un líquido por evaporación.
- 7Volver más estrecho, disminuir la amplitud.
- 8Hacer porciones más pequeñas de algo.
- 9Pasar a unidades menores para expresar la misma cantidad.
- 10Mediante argumentos atraer y convencer a una persona.
- 11Expresar varias fracciones (o quebrados) en otra única fracción.
- 12Hablando de heridas y huesos, volver a poner los tejidos y huesos a su posición original.
- 13Ganar electrones el agente oxidante y por tanto disminuir el estado de oxidación.
- 14Al conducir un automóvil, poner la velocidad inferior.
- 15Recurrir a la reducción, una herramienta epistémica o al reduccionismo, una tesis metodológica.
- 16Comprar y vender objetos robados.
- 17Regresar algo al lugar o estado anterior.
- 18Hacer una copia idéntica, pero en menor tamaño, de un dibujo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erducir,rdeucir,redcuir,redducir,reduccir,reducirr,reducri,reduicr,redusir,reudcir,rreducir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for reducir
Misspelling Variants of "reducir"
Frequency rank: #2,225 in Spanish
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