retirarse
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,783
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
retirarse is aSpanishverb. It means: Quitarse o alejarse de algo o alguien, de modo de no estar en contacto. Pronounced [ret̪iˈɾaɾse]. It ranks #7,783 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with retirar and retirará.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retirarse |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ret̪iˈɾaɾse] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,783 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for retirarse is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ret̪iˈɾaɾse]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,783 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for retirarse, with forms such as "ertirarse", "reitrarse", and "retiarrse". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "retirar", "retirará", "retiraron", 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 retirarse, spelled R-E-T-I-R-A-R-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Quitarse o alejarse de algo o alguien, de modo de no estar en contacto.
- 2Abandonar la vida laboral activa, dejar de ejercer una profesión por límite de edad.
- 3Abandonar una actividad para dedicarse a otra cosa.
- 4Dicho de diversos funcionarios del Estado, pasar a retiro, cesar la vida activa, cuando así lo requiere la carrera funcionaria.
- 5Abandonar el trato con una o más personas.
- 6Dicho de una tropa, abandonar el campo, dejar las posiciones.
- 7Alejarse de los demás para ir a dormir.
- 8Despedirse de los demás para ir a casa.
- 9Irse a un lugar protegido, ponerse a salvo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ertirarse,reitrarse,retiarrse,retirarce,retirares,retirarrse,retirarsse,retirasre,retirrarse,retirrase,retriarse,rettirarse,rretirarse,rteirarse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for retirarse
Misspelling Variants of "retirarse"
Frequency rank: #7,783 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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