departamento
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#805
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
18
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
departamento is aSpanishnoun. It means: Unidad de vivienda autónoma que, junto con otras similares, conforma un edificio o complejo de residencias Pronounced [d̪epaɾt̪aˈmẽn̪t̪o]. It ranks #805 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with department and departamentos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | departamento |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [d̪epaɾt̪aˈmẽn̪t̪o] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for departamento is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪epaɾt̪aˈmẽn̪t̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #805 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 18 documented wrong-spelling variants for departamento, with forms such as "ddepartamento", "deaprtamento", and "deparatmento". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "department", "departamentos", "departamental", 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 departamento, spelled D-E-P-A-R-T-A-M-E-N-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Unidad de vivienda autónoma que, junto con otras similares, conforma un edificio o complejo de residencias
- 2Unidad administrativa de una organización
- 3En particular, la que corresponde a un saber o disciplina en una universidad y organiza la enseñanza e investigación en la misma
- 4En algunos países, unidad político-administrativa en que se divide su territorio
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddepartamento,deaprtamento,deparatmento,deparrtamento,departaemnto,departamennto,departamenot,departamentto,departametno,departammento,departamneto,departmaento,departtamento,depatramento,deppartamento,depratamento,dpeartamento,edpartamento
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for departamento
Misspelling Variants of "departamento"
Frequency rank: #805 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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