desafiaba
[d̪esaˈfjaβ̞a]
The verdict
“desafiaba” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #81,894 among 90,663 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,894
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 90,663
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de desafiar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-desafiaba · desafiaba · Spanish
desafiaba · rank #81,894 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,894
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 90,663
- PHOTO-FINISH desactivando
Nearest frequency peer: desactivando (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “desafiaba”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- depresivas
depresivas
18,110 corpus weight
- derogan
derogan
18,109 corpus weight
- desactivando
desactivando
18,108 corpus weight
- desafiaba
desafiaba
18,107 corpus weight
- desaprobado
desaprobado
18,106 corpus weight
- desayunan
desayunan
18,105 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “desafiaba” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desafiaba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪esaˈfjaβ̞a] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,894 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “desafiaba” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
desafiaba is uncommon Spanish at frequency #81,894 among 90,663 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [d̪esaˈfjaβ̞a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for desafiaba, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 desafiaba, spelled D-E-S-A-F-I-A-B-A.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de desafiar.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de desafiar.
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
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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.