sembrar
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,490
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
sembrar is aSpanishverb. It means: Esparcir o enterrar semillas sobre la tierra para que se desarrollen y reproduzcan. Pronounced [sẽmˈbɾaɾ]. Often confused with sombra and sembró.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for sembrar is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sẽmˈbɾaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #11,490 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for sembrar, with forms such as "cembrar", "esmbrar", and "sebmrar". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "sombra", "sembró", "sombras", 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 sembrar, spelled S-E-M-B-R-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Esparcir o enterrar semillas sobre la tierra para que se desarrollen y reproduzcan.
- 2Esparcir algo.
- 3Iniciar algo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cembrar,esmbrar,sebmrar,sembarr,sembbrar,sembrarr,sembrra,sembrrar,semmbrar,semrbar,semvrar,smebrar,ssembrar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sembrar
Misspelling Variants of "sembrar"
Frequency rank: #11,490 in Spanish
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