desarticular
[d̪esaɾt̪ikuˈlaɾ]
The verdict
“desarticular” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #55,522 in Spanish word frequency and used as a verb.
- #55,522
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Separar huesos que estaban unidos o articulados.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desarticular |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪esaɾt̪ikuˈlaɾ] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #55,522 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “desarticular” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for desarticular is 12 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪esaɾt̪ikuˈlaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #55,522 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for desarticular 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 desarticular, spelled D-E-S-A-R-T-I-C-U-L-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Separar huesos que estaban unidos o articulados.
- 2Separar elementos de una máquina u aparato.
- 3Capturar, eliminar o apresar a los principales componentes de una banda o grupo criminal, haciendo que dicha banda o grupo pierda cohesión y fuerza.
- 4Romper la organización, el orden o la composición de algo.
- 5Omitir la pronunciación de un segmento en un elemento fonético.^([cita requerida])
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 “desarticular”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is D-E-S-A-R-T-I-C-U-L-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [d̪esaɾt̪ikuˈlaɾ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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