debacle
[d̪eˈβ̞akle]
The verdict
“debacle” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #26,390. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,390
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ruina, desastre.
Corpus desk
Index ES-debacle · debacle · Spanish
debacle · rank #26,390 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,390
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH cultivadas
Nearest frequency peer: cultivadas (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “debacle”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- cuco
cuco
73,615 corpus weight
- cuestionami…
cuestionamientos
73,614 corpus weight
- cultivadas
cultivadas
73,612 corpus weight
- debacle
debacle
73,611 corpus weight
- debatido
debatido
73,610 corpus weight
- decadente
decadente
73,609 corpus weight
What this shows “debacle” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | debacle |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [d̪eˈβ̞akle] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #26,390 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “debacle”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around debacle (IPA [d̪eˈβ̞akle]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,390 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for debacle, with forms such as "dbeacle", "ddebacle", and "deabcle". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "debate", "detalle", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is debacle, spelled D-E-B-A-C-L-E.
Definition
- 1Ruina, desastre.
- 2Fracaso en un negocio o empresa.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dbeacle
- ddebacle
- deabcle
- debaccle
- debacel
- debaclle
- debalce
- debbacle
- debcale
- devacle
- edbacle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of debacle - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "debacle", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).