descender
[d̪esẽn̪ˈd̪eɾ]
The verdict
“descender” has 15 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #14,336. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,336
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pasar de una posición alta a una más baja.
Corpus desk
Index ES-descender · descender · Spanish
descender · rank #14,336 · 15 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,336
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH denso
Nearest frequency peer: denso (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “descender”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- decorado
decorado
85,668 corpus weight
- Denis
Denis
85,667 corpus weight
- denso
denso
85,666 corpus weight
- descender
descender
85,665 corpus weight
- despreciable
despreciable
85,664 corpus weight
- desvío
desvío
85,663 corpus weight
What this shows “descender” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | descender |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪esẽn̪ˈd̪eɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #14,336 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “descender”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around descender (IPA [d̪esẽn̪ˈd̪eɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,336 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for descender, with forms such as "ddescender", "decsender", and "desccender". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "desciende", "descendió", "descendía", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is descender, spelled D-E-S-C-E-N-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Pasar de una posición alta a una más baja.
- 2Disminuir la altura.
- 3En una liga con diversos equipos, cuando uno de ellos pasa a una categoría inferior.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddescender
- decsender
- desccender
- descedner
- descendder
- descenderr
- descendre
- descenedr
- descennder
- descneder
- desecnder
- desscender
- dessender
- dsecender
- edscender
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of descender - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "descender", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).