vacunar
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#36,353
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
vacunar is aSpanishverb. It means: Inocular con el virus CPXV, causante de la viruela bovina, para inmunizar contra la viruela. Pronounced [bakuˈnaɾ]. Often confused with vacuno and vicuña.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vacunar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bakuˈnaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #36,353 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for vacunar is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bakuˈnaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #36,353 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 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for vacunar, with forms such as "avcunar", "bacunar", and "vaccunar". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "vacuno", "vicuña", "vacunas", 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 vacunar, spelled V-A-C-U-N-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Inocular con el virus CPXV, causante de la viruela bovina, para inmunizar contra la viruela.
- 2Por extensión, inocular con un antígeno cualquiera para desarrollar inmunidad a un agente patógeno.
- 3Por analogía, someter a alguno a una experiencia penosa o ardua para prepararlo ante dificultades futuras.
- 4Apoderarse del dinero o bienes de una persona mediante engaño.
- 5Mantener relaciones sexuales.
- 6Derrotar contundentemente.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: avcunar,bacunar,vaccunar,vacnuar,vacuanr,vacunarr,vacunnar,vacunra,vaucnar,vcaunar,vvacunar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vacunar
Misspelling Variants of "vacunar"
Frequency rank: #36,353 in Spanish
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