voltear
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,273
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
voltear is aSpanishverb. It means: Girar alrededor de sí mismo. Pronounced [bol̪t̪eˈaɾ]. Often confused with votar and volver.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | voltear |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bol̪t̪eˈaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #23,273 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for voltear is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bol̪t̪eˈaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #23,273 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 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 voltear, with forms such as "boltear", "ovltear", and "vlotear". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "votar", "volver", "volteo", 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 voltear, spelled V-O-L-T-E-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Girar alrededor de sí mismo.
- 2Invertir la posición de algo.
- 3Cambiar la orientación de algo o alguíen.
- 4Dicho de una persona: girar la cabeza o el cuerpo alrededor de su eje vertical.
- 5Dicho de un vehículo: girar para descansar sobre su parte superior o uno de sus costados.
- 6Hacer caer al suelo a alguien o algo.
- 7Practicar el coito con una mujer.
- 8Abrir surcos en la tierra, de modo que al mismo tiempo los tepes queden invertidos ("volteados") formando camellones.
- 9Zozobrar.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: boltear,ovltear,vlotear,voletar,volltear,voltaer,voltearr,voltera,volttear,votlear,vvoltear
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for voltear
Misspelling Variants of "voltear"
Frequency rank: #23,273 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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