sitiar
[siˈt̪jaɾ]
The verdict
“sitiar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #69,806 among 4,169 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,806
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cercar una plaza o fortaleza para combatirla y apoderarse de ella.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sitiar · sitiar · Spanish
sitiar · rank #69,806 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,806
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH sirviéndose
Nearest frequency peer: sirviéndose (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “sitiar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- setting
setting
30,201 corpus weight
- sintáctica
sintáctica
30,197 corpus weight
- sirviéndose
sirviéndose
30,196 corpus weight
- sitiar
sitiar
30,195 corpus weight
- socava
socava
30,193 corpus weight
- Solsona
Solsona
30,192 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “sitiar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sitiar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [siˈt̪jaɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,806 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “sitiar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
sitiar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #69,806 among 4,169 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [siˈt̪jaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for sitiar in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is sitiar, spelled S-I-T-I-A-R.
Definition
- 1Cercar una plaza o fortaleza para combatirla y apoderarse de ella.
- 2Cercar a uno tomándole y cerrándole todas las salidas para cogerle.
Synonyms
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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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