sobrevolar
[soβ̞ɾeβ̞oˈlaɾ]
The verdict
“sobrevolar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #57,396 among 4,169 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,396
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Volar por encima de un lugar determinado.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sobrevolar · sobrevolar · Spanish
sobrevolar · rank #57,396 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,396
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH sintáctico
Nearest frequency peer: sintáctico (-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 “sobrevolar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- sigiloso
sigiloso
42,609 corpus weight
- silveira
silveira
42,608 corpus weight
- sintáctico
sintáctico
42,606 corpus weight
- sobrevolar
sobrevolar
42,605 corpus weight
- soltamos
soltamos
42,603 corpus weight
- soportados
soportados
42,602 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “sobrevolar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sobrevolar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [soβ̞ɾeβ̞oˈlaɾ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #57,396 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “sobrevolar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
sobrevolar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #57,396 among 4,169 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [soβ̞ɾeβ̞oˈlaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Volar por encima de un lugar determinado.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sobrevolar, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is sobrevolar, spelled S-O-B-R-E-V-O-L-A-R.
Definition
- 1Volar por encima de un lugar determinado.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sobrevolar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
'Ya vi en otros estados situaciones fantásticas de inundaciones, pero aquí vi una cantidad de agua absurda, impresionante', afirmó la gobernante al referirse a las áreas inundadas que sobrevoló
This word in other languages
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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