secuestrar
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,709
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
secuestrar is aSpanishverb. It means: Retener a alguien contra su voluntad sin amparo legal. Pronounced [sekwesˈt̪ɾaɾ]. Often confused with secuestro and secuestros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | secuestrar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [sekwesˈt̪ɾaɾ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #14,709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for secuestrar is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sekwesˈt̪ɾaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,709 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for secuestrar, with forms such as "cecuestrar", "escuestrar", and "sceuestrar". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "secuestro", "secuestros", "secuestraron", 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 secuestrar, spelled S-E-C-U-E-S-T-R-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Retener a alguien contra su voluntad sin amparo legal.
- 2Retener un bien material por mandato judicial.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cecuestrar,escuestrar,sceuestrar,seccuestrar,seceustrar,secuesrtar,secuesstrar,secuestarr,secuestrarr,secuestrra,secuestrrar,secuesttrar,secuetsrar,secusetrar,seucestrar,ssecuestrar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for secuestrar
Misspelling Variants of "secuestrar"
Frequency rank: #14,709 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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