respetar
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,876
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
respetar is aSpanishverb. It means: Tener presente, valorar y estimar la dignidad y los derechos o privilegios de alguien o algo; sentir respeto. Pronounced [respeˈt̪aɾ]. It ranks #3,876 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with respeto and respirar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | respetar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [respeˈt̪aɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #3,876 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for respetar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [respeˈt̪aɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,876 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 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 respetar, with forms such as "erspetar", "repsetar", and "reseptar". 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, "respeto", "respirar", "resultar", 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 respetar, spelled R-E-S-P-E-T-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tener presente, valorar y estimar la dignidad y los derechos o privilegios de alguien o algo; sentir respeto.
- 2Obrar con atención a las normas establecidas, especialmente en relación con la cortesía o con los derechos de otros; tratar con consideración, miramiento y urbanidad.
- 3Por extensión, cumplir con un acuerdo, contrato o promesa.
- 4Acatar y atenerse a una decisión tomada firmemente.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erspetar,repsetar,reseptar,respeatr,respetarr,respetra,respettar,resppetar,resptear,resspetar,rrespetar,rsepetar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for respetar
Misspelling Variants of "respetar"
Frequency rank: #3,876 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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