refugiar
[refuˈxjaɾ]
The verdict
“refugiar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #91,306 among 4,151 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,306
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dar cobijo, resguardo, asilo o protección a alguien, en particular si tiene algún peligro, amenaza o adversidad.
Corpus desk
Index ES-refugiar · refugiar · Spanish
refugiar · rank #91,306 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,306
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH refrigerantes
Nearest frequency peer: refrigerantes (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “refugiar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- reforzaría
reforzaría
8,697 corpus weight
- refrigerant…
refrigerantes
8,696 corpus weight
- refugiar
refugiar
8,695 corpus weight
- regalía
regalía
8,694 corpus weight
- regaños
regaños
8,693 corpus weight
- regresiones
regresiones
8,692 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “refugiar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | refugiar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [refuˈxjaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “refugiar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
refugiar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #91,306 among 4,151 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [refuˈxjaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dar cobijo, resguardo, asilo o protección a alguien, en particular si tiene algún peligro, amenaza o adversidad.".
Zero misspellings are on record for refugiar in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is refugiar, spelled R-E-F-U-G-I-A-R.
Definition
- 1Dar cobijo, resguardo, asilo o protección a alguien, en particular si tiene algún peligro, amenaza o adversidad.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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