vapor
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,448
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
vapor is aSpanishnoun. It means: Sustancia en estado gaseoso a una temperatura tal que el aumento de la presión puede provocar que se condense en líquido o sólido sin variar su temperatura, a diferencia de los gases verdaderos que... Pronounced [baˈpoɾ]. It ranks #5,448 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with VOR and vaso.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vapor |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [baˈpoɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,448 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for vapor is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [baˈpoɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,448 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for vapor, with forms such as "avpor", "bapor", and "vaopr". 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, "VOR", "vaso", "vato", 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 vapor, spelled V-A-P-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sustancia en estado gaseoso a una temperatura tal que el aumento de la presión puede provocar que se condense en líquido o sólido sin variar su temperatura, a diferencia de los gases verdaderos que son impasibles a tal condensación. La más frecuentemente encontrada es el vapor de agua, que forma la niebla y las nubes.
- 2Buque impulsado por calderas de combustión que generan vapor, cuya presión hace mover paletas o turbinas.
- 3Acceso de debilidad o mareo, que los antiguos atribuían al vapor de ciertos humores.
- 4Acceso de enfado o cólera súbita.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: avpor,bapor,vaopr,vaporr,vappor,vapro,vpaor,vvapor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vapor
Misspelling Variants of "vapor"
Frequency rank: #5,448 in Spanish
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