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despedida

/d̪ɛs.pɛˈd̪i.d̪ɐ/noun

despedida is spelled D-E-S-P-E-D-I-D-A: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, despedida means “a farewell party” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of despedida is despedidas.

How many letters and syllables are in despedida?

Letters9: D-E-S-P-E-D-I-D-A
In writingabout once in every 65 million words; the 252,559th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is despedida?

Despedida appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce despedida?

  • /d̪ɛs.pɛˈd̪i.d̪ɐ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Mlgc1998-despedida.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of despedida

  • despedidas plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does despedida mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    a farewell party

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does despedida come from?

Borrowed from Spanish despedida.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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