departamentos

/[d̪epaɾt̪aˈmẽn̪t̪os]/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,910

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

20

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

departamentos is aSpanishnoun. It means: Forma del plural de departamento. Pronounced [d̪epaɾt̪aˈmẽn̪t̪os]. It ranks #3,910 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with departamento and departamental.

Key facts for departamentos
PropertyValue
Headworddepartamentos
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[d̪epaɾt̪aˈmẽn̪t̪os]
Letters13
Frequency rank#3,910
Misspellings tracked20
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of departamentos in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for departamentos is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪epaɾt̪aˈmẽn̪t̪os]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,910 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Forma del plural de departamento.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 20 documented wrong-spelling variants for departamentos, with forms such as "ddepartamentos", "deaprtamentos", and "deparatmentos". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "departamento", "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 departamentos, spelled D-E-P-A-R-T-A-M-E-N-T-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Forma del plural de departamento.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ddepartamentos,deaprtamentos,deparatmentos,deparrtamentos,departaemntos,departamenntos,departamenots,departamentoss,departamentso,departamenttos,departametnos,departammentos,departamnetos,departmaentos,departtamentos,depatramentos,deppartamentos,depratamentos,dpeartamentos,edpartamentos

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for departamentos

Misspelling Variants of "departamentos"

ddepartamentos14deaprtamentos13deparatmentos13deparrtamentos14departaemntos13departamenntos14departamenots13departamentoss14
Misspelling Variants of "departamentos"

Frequency rank: #3,910 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "departamentos"?
"departamentos" is spelled D-E-P-A-R-T-A-M-E-N-T-O-S. The IPA pronunciation is [d̪epaɾt̪aˈmẽn̪t̪os].
What does "departamentos" mean?
As a noun, "departamentos" means: Forma del plural de departamento.
What words are commonly confused with "departamentos"?
"departamentos" is commonly confused with "departamento", "departamental". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "departamentos"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "departamentos" is [d̪epaɾt̪aˈmẽn̪t̪os]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "departamentos" come from?
"departamentos" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.