reposar
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,142
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
reposar is aSpanishverb. It means: Descansar, dar intermisión a la fatiga o al trabajo. Pronounced [repoˈsaɾ]. Often confused with reposo and revisar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reposar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [repoˈsaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #28,142 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for reposar is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [repoˈsaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #28,142 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 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for reposar, with forms such as "erposar", "reopsar", and "repoasr". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "reposo", "revisar", "revocar", 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 reposar, spelled R-E-P-O-S-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Descansar, dar intermisión a la fatiga o al trabajo.
- 2Descansar, durmiendo un breve sueño.
- 3Permanecer en quietud y paz y sin alteración una cosa.
- 4Estar enterrado, yacer.
- 5Tratándose de líquidos, posarse.
- 6Permanecer en cama como parte de un tratamiento de una enfermedad grave o una convalecencia postoperatoria.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erposar,reopsar,repoasr,reposarr,reposra,repossar,repposar,repsoar,rpeosar,rreposar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for reposar
Misspelling Variants of "reposar"
Frequency rank: #28,142 in Spanish
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