sobresalir
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#34,784
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
sobresalir is aSpanishverb. It means: Destacar o diferenciarse dentro de un grupo de personas o cosas. En especial si es por tener un mayor altura o tamaño. Pronounced [soβ̞ɾesaˈliɾ]. Often confused with sobresale and sobresalen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sobresalir |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [soβ̞ɾesaˈliɾ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #34,784 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for sobresalir is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [soβ̞ɾesaˈliɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #34,784 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for sobresalir, with forms such as "osbresalir", "sboresalir", and "sobbresalir". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "sobresale", "sobresalen", 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 sobresalir, spelled S-O-B-R-E-S-A-L-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Destacar o diferenciarse dentro de un grupo de personas o cosas. En especial si es por tener un mayor altura o tamaño.
- 2Superar a otros.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: osbresalir,sboresalir,sobbresalir,sobersalir,sobreaslir,sobresailr,sobresalirr,sobresallir,sobresalri,sobreslair,sobressalir,sobrresalir,sobrsealir,sorbesalir,sovresalir,ssobresalir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sobresalir
Misspelling Variants of "sobresalir"
Frequency rank: #34,784 in Spanish
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