desahuciar
[d̪esawˈsjaɾ]
The verdict
“desahuciar” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #87,713 in Spanish word frequency and used as a verb.
- #87,713
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - No dar esperanza alguna, dejar sin ninguna expectativa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desahuciar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪esawˈsjaɾ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #87,713 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “desahuciar” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for desahuciar is 10 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪esawˈsjaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #87,713 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for desahuciar in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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.
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 desahuciar, spelled D-E-S-A-H-U-C-I-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1No dar esperanza alguna, dejar sin ninguna expectativa.
- 2Declarar incurable a un enfermo.
- 3Expulsar judicialmente a un arrendatario.
- 4Exonerar de un empleo a un funcionario público, pagándole una indemnización o desahucio, por años de servicio.
This word in other languages
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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Using “desahuciar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is D-E-S-A-H-U-C-I-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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