regar
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#25,429
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
regar is aSpanishverb. It means: Llevar el agua a la tierra que cubre las plantas, a los sembradíos y a las plantas mismas. Pronounced [reˈɣ̞aɾ]. Often confused with reír and reza.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | regar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [reˈɣ̞aɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #25,429 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for regar is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [reˈɣ̞aɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #25,429 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for regar, with forms such as "ergar", "reagr", and "regarr". 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, "reír", "reza", "reja", 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 regar, spelled R-E-G-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Llevar el agua a la tierra que cubre las plantas, a los sembradíos y a las plantas mismas.
- 2Esparcir agua, u otro líquido, sobre una superficie.
- 3Irrigar un río o corriente de agua una comarca o región.
- 4Arrojar numerosos objetos sobre un espacio, terreno o superficie.
- 5Acompañar una comida con una bebida.
- 6Humedecer las abejas las celdas de las larvas.
- 7Hacer que algo sea conocido por gran cantidad de personas.
- 8Actuar de forma irresponsable.
- 9Dar golpes a algo o alguien.
- 10No conseguir su objetivo una persona.
- 11Hablar o hacer cosas inoportunas.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ergar,reagr,regarr,reggar,regra,rgear,rregar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for regar
Misspelling Variants of "regar"
Frequency rank: #25,429 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter R in our Spanish index: