decente
[d̪eˈsẽn̪t̪e]
The verdict
“decente” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #6,167. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,167
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - De proceder honesto, justo, debido
Corpus desk
Index ES-decente · decente · Spanish
decente · rank #6,167 · 11 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,167
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH demonios
Nearest frequency peer: demonios (+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 “decente”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- convierten
convierten
93,838 corpus weight
- crecido
crecido
93,836 corpus weight
- decente
decente
93,834 corpus weight
- demonios
demonios
93,833 corpus weight
- despedida
despedida
93,832 corpus weight
- Digna
Digna
93,831 corpus weight
What this shows “decente” 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 | decente |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [d̪eˈsẽn̪t̪e] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,167 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “decente”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around decente (IPA [d̪eˈsẽn̪t̪e]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,167 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for decente, with forms such as "dceente", "ddecente", and "deccente". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "diente", "delante", "depende", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is decente, spelled D-E-C-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1De proceder honesto, justo, debido
- 2Conforme al estado o calidad de la persona
- 3Limpio, aseado, ordenado, arreglado
- 4Digno
- 5Bien portado
- 6De calidad o cantidad suficiente, moderadamente satisfactorio
- 7Que observa las reglas de la moral, el pudor y el recato.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dceente
- ddecente
- deccente
- decenet
- decennte
- decentte
- decetne
- decnete
- deecnte
- desente
- edcente
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of decente - 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 "decente", 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).