saltear
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#64,962
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
saltear is aSpanishverb. It means: Empezar a hacer una cosa sin continuarla, sino dejándola comenzada y pasando a otras. Pronounced [sal̪t̪eˈaɾ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saltear |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [sal̪t̪eˈaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,962 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for saltear is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sal̪t̪eˈaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #64,962 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for saltear in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 saltear, spelled S-A-L-T-E-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Empezar a hacer una cosa sin continuarla, sino dejándola comenzada y pasando a otras.
- 2Cocinar un alimento calentándolo brevemente con poco aceite o grasa (para freírlo un poco), de modo que la comida se dore sin pegarse a la sartén.
- 3Atacar a alguien con el fin de robarle sus pertenencias, especialmente cuando se trata de un viajero.
- 4Cobrar un precio excesivo.
- 5Embestir o atacar con ímpetu, especialmente a un grupo en un enfrentamiento o guerra.
- 6Sorprender el ánimo con una impresión fuerte y viva.
- 7Tomar una cosa anticipándose a otro.
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Frequency rank: #64,962 in Spanish
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