debates
[d̪eˈβ̞at̪es]
The verdict
“debates” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #4,986. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,986
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del plural de debate.
Corpus desk
Index ES-debates · debates · Spanish
debates · rank #4,986 · 11 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,986
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH comunistas
Nearest frequency peer: comunistas (-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 “debates”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- cometer
cometer
95,018 corpus weight
- comprado
comprado
95,017 corpus weight
- comunistas
comunistas
95,016 corpus weight
- debates
debates
95,015 corpus weight
- directiva
directiva
95,014 corpus weight
- discursos
discursos
95,013 corpus weight
What this shows “debates” 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 | debates |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [d̪eˈβ̞at̪es] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “debates”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around debates (IPA [d̪eˈβ̞at̪es]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,986 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Forma del plural de debate.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for debates, with forms such as "dbeates", "ddebates", and "deabtes". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "debes", "dejate", "débiles", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is debates, spelled D-E-B-A-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de debate.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dbeates
- ddebates
- deabtes
- debaets
- debatess
- debatse
- debattes
- debbates
- debtaes
- devates
- edbates
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of debates - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "debates", 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).