tropezar
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#29,429
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
tropezar is aSpanishverb. It means: Chocar accidentalmente con un obstáculo al caminar, especialmente con los pies, a riesgo de caer. Pronounced [t̪ɾopeˈsaɾ]. Often confused with tropezó and tropieza.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tropezar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [t̪ɾopeˈsaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #29,429 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tropezar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪ɾopeˈsaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #29,429 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for tropezar, with forms such as "rtopezar", "torpezar", and "troepzar". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "tropezó", "tropieza", 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 tropezar, spelled T-R-O-P-E-Z-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Chocar accidentalmente con un obstáculo al caminar, especialmente con los pies, a riesgo de caer.
- 2Dar con un estorbo, obstáculo o impedimento.
- 3Caer en una falta, error o transgresión, o estar a punto de hacerlo.
- 4Oponerse a la voluntad o decisión de alguien.
- 5Notar la dificultad para ejecutar una acción, o la deficiencia de algo.
- 6Encontrar a otra persona por casualidad.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtopezar,torpezar,troepzar,tropeazr,tropezarr,tropezra,tropezzar,troppezar,tropzear,trpoezar,trropezar,ttropezar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tropezar
Misspelling Variants of "tropezar"
Frequency rank: #29,429 in Spanish
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