tocar
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,138
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tocar is aSpanishverb. It means: Percibir las cualidades de un objeto mediante el sentido del tacto. Pronounced [t̪oˈkaɾ]. It ranks #2,138 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with tor and toda.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tocar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [t̪oˈkaɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,138 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tocar is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪oˈkaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,138 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 17 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 tocar, with forms such as "otcar", "tcoar", and "toacr". 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, "tor", "toda", "toma", 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 tocar, spelled T-O-C-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Percibir las cualidades de un objeto mediante el sentido del tacto.
- 2Poner dos objetos en contacto.
- 3Producir sonidos utilizando un instrumento musical.
- 4Por extensión, interpretar una obra musical.
- 5Alterar, modificar o meterle mano a algo.
- 6Dar toques o pinceladas sobre lo pintado, para su mayor efecto.
- 7Dañar o destruir.
- 8Estimular, persuadir, inspirar.
- 9Saber o conocer una cosa por experiencia.
- 10Llegar o arribar, sólo de paso, a algún lugar.
- 11Tratar o hablar leve o superficialmente de una materia sin hacer asunto principal de ella.
- 12Ensayar una pieza de oro o plata en la piedra de toque, para conocer la proporción de metal fino que contiene.
- 13Tirar un poco hacia afuera de los guarnes de un aparejo y soltar en seguida para facilitar su laboreo.
- 14Empezar a flamear una vela que va en viento, cuando comienza a perderle.
- 15Dar suavemente con la quilla en el fondo.
- 16Pasar (hacer un pase corto a otro jugador).
- 17Ofertar (hacer una oferta a alguien).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: otcar,tcoar,toacr,tocarr,toccar,tocra,ttocar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tocar
Misspelling Variants of "tocar"
Frequency rank: #2,138 in Spanish
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