vacilar
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#38,440
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
vacilar is aSpanishverb. It means: Moverse con inseguridad, sin paso firme o de modo indeterminado. Pronounced [basiˈlaɾ]. Often confused with Vilar and variar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vacilar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [basiˈlaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #38,440 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for vacilar is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [basiˈlaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #38,440 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 vacilar, with forms such as "avcilar", "bacilar", and "vaccilar". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Vilar", "variar", "vigilar", 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 vacilar, spelled V-A-C-I-L-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Moverse con inseguridad, sin paso firme o de modo indeterminado.
- 2Estar poco firme, en peligro de caerse, malograrse o cambiar de estado.
- 3Dicho de una persona, dudar, estar inseguro sobre una decisión u opinión.
- 4Pasar un rato agradable de ocio en compañía de otras personas, haciendo chistes, conversando, bailando, etc.
- 5Decir piropos o lisonjas.
- 6Estar ocioso y sin hacer nada productivo o constructivo; perder el tiempo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: avcilar,bacilar,vaccilar,vacialr,vacilarr,vacillar,vacilra,vacliar,vaiclar,vasilar,vcailar,vvacilar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vacilar
Misspelling Variants of "vacilar"
Frequency rank: #38,440 in Spanish
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