descansar
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,779
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
descansar is aSpanishverb. It means: Interrumpir el trabajo, dejar de trabajar. Pronounced [d̪eskãnˈsaɾ]. It ranks #4,779 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with descanso and descargar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | descansar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪eskãnˈsaɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,779 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for descansar is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪eskãnˈsaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,779 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for descansar, with forms such as "ddescansar", "decsansar", and "desacnsar". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "descanso", "descargar", "descartar", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 descansar, spelled D-E-S-C-A-N-S-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Interrumpir el trabajo, dejar de trabajar.
- 2Reponerse de la fatiga.
- 3Tomar asueto o vacaciones.
- 4Dormir.
- 5Dicho de una persona o un animal, estar fallecido.
- 6Sentir alivio de las preocupaciones.
- 7Recibir consuelo o desahogo al compartir las penas con otro.
- 8Hallarse una tierra sin trabajo ni cultivo durante un año o dos, estar en barbecho.
- 9Tomar el soldado la posición de descanso.
- 10Estar apoyado sobre otra cosa.
- 11Recaer la responsabilidad de una tarea sobre alguien.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddescansar,decsansar,desacnsar,descanasr,descannsar,descansarr,descansra,descanssar,descasnar,desccansar,descnasar,desscansar,dsecansar,edscansar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for descansar
Misspelling Variants of "descansar"
Frequency rank: #4,779 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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