decente
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,167
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
decente is anSpanishadj. It means: De proceder honesto, justo, debido Pronounced [d̪eˈsẽn̪t̪e]. It ranks #6,167 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with diente and delante.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | decente |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [d̪eˈsẽn̪t̪e] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,167 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for decente is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪eˈsẽn̪t̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,167 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for decente, with forms such as "dceente", "ddecente", and "deccente". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, 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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is decente, spelled D-E-C-E-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: dceente,ddecente,deccente,decenet,decennte,decentte,decetne,decnete,deecnte,desente,edcente
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for decente
Misspelling Variants of "decente"
Frequency rank: #6,167 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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