desaparecían
[d̪esapaɾeˈsiãn]
The verdict
“desaparecían” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #52,843 among 4,885 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,843
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de desaparecer o de desaparecerse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-desaparecian · desaparecían · Spanish
desaparecían · rank #52,843 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,843
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH derivando
Nearest frequency peer: derivando (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “desaparecían”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- demoraron
demoraron
47,161 corpus weight
- derivando
derivando
47,159 corpus weight
- desaparecían
desaparecían
47,158 corpus weight
- descuenta
descuenta
47,157 corpus weight
- desesperar
desesperar
47,155 corpus weight
- desestimada
desestimada
47,154 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “desaparecían” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desaparecían |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪esapaɾeˈsiãn] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #52,843 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “desaparecían” en español
Rare enough to double-check
desaparecían is uncommon Spanish at frequency #52,843 among 4,885 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [d̪esapaɾeˈsiãn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de desaparecer o de desaparecerse.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for desaparecían in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 desaparecían, spelled D-E-S-A-P-A-R-E-C-Í-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de desaparecer o de desaparecerse.
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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