descendía
[d̪esẽn̪ˈd̪ia]
The verdict
“descendía” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #41,850. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,850
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 90,663
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de descender.
Corpus desk
Index ES-descendia · descendía · Spanish
descendía · rank #41,850 · 14 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,850
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 90,663
- PHOTO-FINISH desayunando
Nearest frequency peer: desayunando (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “descendía”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- depa
depa
58,155 corpus weight
- derrick
derrick
58,154 corpus weight
- derrumbado
derrumbado
58,153 corpus weight
- desayunando
desayunando
58,152 corpus weight
- descendía
descendía
58,151 corpus weight
- desencadena…
desencadenado
58,150 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “descendía” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | descendía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪esẽn̪ˈd̪ia] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #41,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “descendía” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around descendía (IPA [d̪esẽn̪ˈd̪ia]), averb. Corpus frequency is #41,850 among 90,663 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for descendía, with forms such as "ddescendía", "decsendía", and "desccendía". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "descendió", "desconfía", "descendido", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is descendía, spelled D-E-S-C-E-N-D-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de descender.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de descender.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddescendía
- decsendía
- desccendía
- descednía
- descendaí
- descenddía
- descenndía
- descenída
- descnedía
- desecndía
- desscendía
- dessendía
- dsecendía
- edscendía
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of descendía - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "descendía", 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.