despite that
"despite-that" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“despite that” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a conjunction. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - despite the fact that, despite [+ gerund], in spite of, although, even though
Corpus desk
Index EN-despite-that · despite that · English
despite that · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | despite that |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “despite that” in English
Rare enough to double-check
despite that is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aconjunction. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "despite the fact that, despite [+ gerund], in spite of, although, even though".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for despite that, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is despite that, spelled D-E-S-P-I-T-E- -T-H-A-T.
Definition
- 1despite the fact that, despite [+ gerund], in spite of, although, even though
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how despite that appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ballybogoin's Ulster unionists and Irish nationalists, despite that they had been mired in political violence for nearly thirty years and appear to possess identities that correspond to those made in their seventeenth-century encounters, negotiated their identities through everyday practices in the varied social spaces they occupied.
Despite that I now know that my chest pains are not at all dangerous, if the episode lasts for any amount of time, I start to panic.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.