desatascar
[d̪esat̪asˈkaɾ]
The verdict
“desatascar” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sacar a alguien o algo del atascadero.
Corpus desk
Index ES-desatascar · desatascar · Spanish
desatascar · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desatascar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪esat̪asˈkaɾ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “desatascar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
desatascar is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [d̪esat̪asˈkaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for desatascar, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 desatascar, spelled D-E-S-A-T-A-S-C-A-R.
Definition
- 1Sacar a alguien o algo del atascadero.
- 2Desatancar, dejar libre o despejar un conducto o un paso obstruido.
- 3Sacar a alguien de la dificultad en que se halla y de la que no alcanza a salir por medios propios.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.