sembrar
[sẽmˈbɾaɾ]
The verdict
“sembrar” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #11,490. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,490
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Esparcir o enterrar semillas sobre la tierra para que se desarrollen y reproduzcan.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sembrar · sembrar · Spanish
sembrar · rank #11,490 · 13 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,490
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH sanitarias
Nearest frequency peer: sanitarias (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “sembrar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- requerido
requerido
88,515 corpus weight
- sanitarias
sanitarias
88,512 corpus weight
- sembrar
sembrar
88,511 corpus weight
- sucursal
sucursal
88,509 corpus weight
- suenan
suenan
88,508 corpus weight
- sugerir
sugerir
88,507 corpus weight
What this shows “sembrar” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sembrar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [sẽmˈbɾaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,490 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “sembrar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around sembrar (IPA [sẽmˈbɾaɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,490 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for sembrar, with forms such as "cembrar", "esmbrar", and "sebmrar". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "sombra", "sembró", "sombras", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is sembrar, spelled S-E-M-B-R-A-R.
Definition
- 1Esparcir o enterrar semillas sobre la tierra para que se desarrollen y reproduzcan.
- 2Esparcir algo.
- 3Iniciar algo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sembrar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
sembrar maíz.
sembrar el miedo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cembrar
- esmbrar
- sebmrar
- sembarr
- sembbrar
- sembrarr
- sembrra
- sembrrar
- semmbrar
- semrbar
- semvrar
- smebrar
- ssembrar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sembrar - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sembrar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).