descarten
[d̪esˈkaɾt̪ẽn]
The verdict
“descarten” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #99,447 among 4,885 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,447
- 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 presente de subjuntivo de descartar o de descartarse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-descarten · descarten · Spanish
descarten · rank #99,447 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,447
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH descabellados
Nearest frequency peer: descabellados (-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 “descarten”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- desarraigado
desarraigado
558 corpus weight
- desarrollem…
desarrollemos
557 corpus weight
- desato
desato
556 corpus weight
- descabellad…
descabellados
555 corpus weight
- descarten
descarten
554 corpus weight
- desembocaba
desembocaba
551 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “descarten” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | descarten |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪esˈkaɾt̪ẽn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #99,447 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “descarten” en español
Rare enough to double-check
descarten is uncommon Spanish at frequency #99,447 among 4,885 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [d̪esˈkaɾt̪ẽn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for descarten, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is descarten, spelled D-E-S-C-A-R-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de descartar o de descartarse.
- 2Segunda persona del plural (ustedes) del imperativo de descartar o del imperativo negativo de descartarse.
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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