debió
[d̪eˈβ̞jo]
The verdict
“debió” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #2,706. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,706
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 90,663
- “D” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de deber.
Corpus desk
Index ES-debio · debió · Spanish
debió · rank #2,706 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,706
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 90,663
- PHOTO-FINISH dará
Nearest frequency peer: dará (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “debió”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- cooperación
cooperación
97,299 corpus weight
- correcta
correcta
97,298 corpus weight
- dará
dará
97,296 corpus weight
- debió
debió
97,295 corpus weight
- discutir
discutir
97,292 corpus weight
- elemento
elemento
97,291 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “debió” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | debió |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪eˈβ̞jo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,706 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “debió” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around debió (IPA [d̪eˈβ̞jo]), averb. Corpus frequency is #2,706 among 90,663 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de deber.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for debió, with forms such as "dbeió", "ddebió", and "debbió". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dio", "dejó", "debo", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is debió, spelled D-E-B-I-Ó.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de deber.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dbeió
- ddebió
- debbió
- debói
- deibó
- devió
- edbió
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of debió - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "debió", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.