signar

/[siɣ̞ˈnaɾ]/ verb

Letters

6 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

signar is aSpanishverb. It means: Marcar con un signo, impronta o señal distintiva. Pronounced [siɣ̞ˈnaɾ].

Key facts for signar
PropertyValue
Headwordsignar
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA[siɣ̞ˈnaɾ]
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

signar is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for signar is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [siɣ̞ˈnaɾ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for signar in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.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 signar, spelled S-I-G-N-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Marcar con un signo, impronta o señal distintiva.
  2. 2
    Escribir una persona su firma (sobre algo: un documento, un papel, etc.).
  3. 3
    Trazar una cruz (al tocar con los dedos de la mano derecha sucesivamente la frente, el pecho y cada hombro) sobre algo o alguien como oración o invocación al dios de los cristianos.
  4. 4
    Formar una cruz con los dedos índice y pulgar de la mano derecha y luego, con el pulgar, trazar tres cruces sucesivas, una en la frente, otra en la boca y otra en el pecho, pidiendo la protección del dios de los cristianos.
  5. 5
    Nombrar o indicar persona, día, hora, lugar o cosa para algún fin.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "signar"?
"signar" is spelled S-I-G-N-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is [siɣ̞ˈnaɾ].
What does "signar" mean?
As a verb, "signar" means: Marcar con un signo, impronta o señal distintiva.
How do you pronounce "signar"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "signar" is [siɣ̞ˈnaɾ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "signar" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.