saltar
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,360
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
saltar is aSpanishverb. It means: Impulsarse o lanzarse al aire. Pronounced [sal̪ˈt̪aɾ]. It ranks #6,360 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with star and santa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saltar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [sal̪ˈt̪aɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,360 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for saltar is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sal̪ˈt̪aɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,360 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for saltar, with forms such as "asltar", "salatr", and "salltar". 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, "star", "santa", "solar", 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 saltar, spelled S-A-L-T-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Impulsarse o lanzarse al aire.
- 2Lanzarse al vacío.
- 3Acción de un objeto que se separa rápidamente de un lugar y se detiene en otro.
- 4Surgir de repente.
- 5En el truco, habiendo perdido la primera ronda, tirar forzosamente en la segunda ronda la carta más alta que se posee para no perder la mano.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asltar,salatr,salltar,saltarr,saltra,salttar,satlar,slatar,ssaltar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for saltar
Misspelling Variants of "saltar"
Frequency rank: #6,360 in Spanish
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