separar
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,072
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
separar is aSpanishverb. It means: Poner distancia, o incrementarla, entre dos o más cosas o entidades. Pronounced [sepaˈɾaɾ]. It ranks #7,072 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with separe and separo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | separar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [sepaˈɾaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for separar is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sepaˈɾaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,072 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 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for separar, with forms such as "ceparar", "esparar", and "seaprar". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "separe", "separo", "superar", 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 separar, spelled S-E-P-A-R-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Poner distancia, o incrementarla, entre dos o más cosas o entidades.
- 2Colocar una barrera o separación entre dos o más objetos o seres.
- 3Considerar partes de algo de forma individual.
- 4Remover algo o a alguien de su posición o situación.
- 5Intervenir para cesar la riña de dos o más animales o personas.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ceparar,esparar,seaprar,sepaarr,separarr,separrar,sepparar,sepraar,spearar,sseparar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for separar
Misspelling Variants of "separar"
Frequency rank: #7,072 in Spanish
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "separar"?
What does "separar" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "separar"?
How do you pronounce "separar"?
What language does "separar" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter S in our Spanish index: