depender
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,368
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
depender is aSpanishverb. It means: Tener subordinación; estar bajo las órdenes o decisiones de una autoridad o gobierno. Pronounced [d̪epẽn̪ˈd̪eɾ]. It ranks #8,368 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with detener and deponer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | depender |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪epẽn̪ˈd̪eɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for depender is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪epẽn̪ˈd̪eɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,368 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for depender, with forms such as "ddepender", "deepnder", and "depedner". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "detener", "deponer", "dependía", 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 depender, spelled D-E-P-E-N-D-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tener subordinación; estar bajo las órdenes o decisiones de una autoridad o gobierno.
- 2Estar condicionado por alguien o algo; ser contingente o estar producido por algo.
- 3Estar supeditado o atenido a un recurso o a la protección de alguien para vivir.
- 4Estar un elemento gramatical regido o subordinado por otro, al ser su complemento o calificativo.
- 5Necesitar de algo en específico o de la presencia de una persona.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddepender,deepnder,depedner,dependder,dependerr,dependre,depenedr,depennder,depneder,deppender,dpeender,edpender
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for depender
Misspelling Variants of "depender"
Frequency rank: #8,368 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter D in our Spanish index: