tirar
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,521
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tirar is aSpanishverb. It means: Traer un objeto, asiéndolo y ejerciendo fuerza hacia el lado propio. Pronounced [t̪iˈɾaɾ]. It ranks #3,521 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with tra and tras.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tirar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [t̪iˈɾaɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,521 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tirar is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪iˈɾaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,521 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 18 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for tirar, with forms such as "itrar", "tiarr", and "tirarr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tra", "tras", "Tiro", and more, 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 tirar, spelled T-I-R-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Traer un objeto, asiéndolo y ejerciendo fuerza hacia el lado propio.
- 2Por extensión: estirar.
- 3Echar algo al aire.
- 4Disparar una bala o cualquier otro proyectil desde un arma de fuego.
- 5Efectuar un lance (con una determinada arma o técnica).
- 6Derribar a alguien; hacer que caiga al suelo.
- 7Demoler una construcción.
- 8Despojarse de un bien o echarlo a la basura.
- 9Imprimir en gran cantidad, en especial las cosas que son por grabado.
- 10Por extensión, se dice de un diario o una editorial cuando lanza a la venta una determinada cantidad de ejemplares.
- 11Disparar el obturador de una cámara fotográfica.
- 12Conducir, transportar o llevar carga.
- 13Continuar con lo que se estaba haciendo, especialmente continuar la marcha.
- 14Cerrar con fuerza una puerta.
- 15Escarniar, profanar o mortificar.
- 16Devengar, adquirir o ganar.
- 17Hilar de un metal.
- 18Echar, expulsar a alguien de un lugar.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: itrar,tiarr,tirarr,tirra,tirrar,triar,ttirar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tirar
Misspelling Variants of "tirar"
Frequency rank: #3,521 in Spanish
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