signar
Letters
6 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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signar is aSpanishverb. It means: Marcar con un signo, impronta o señal distintiva. Pronounced [siɣ̞ˈnaɾ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | signar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [siɣ̞ˈnaɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Marcar con un signo, impronta o señal distintiva.
- 2Escribir una persona su firma (sobre algo: un documento, un papel, etc.).
- 3Trazar 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.
- 4Formar 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.
- 5Nombrar o indicar persona, día, hora, lugar o cosa para algún fin.
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