desconfiar
[d̪eskõɱˈfjaɾ]
The verdict
“desconfiar” has 15 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #24,108. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,108
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - No confiar, no estar seguro o no tener fe a alguien o algo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-desconfiar · desconfiar · Spanish
desconfiar · rank #24,108 · 15 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,108
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH desastroso
Nearest frequency peer: desastroso (-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 “desconfiar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- derivación
derivación
75,896 corpus weight
- desacato
desacato
75,895 corpus weight
- desastroso
desastroso
75,894 corpus weight
- desconfiar
desconfiar
75,893 corpus weight
- descriptiva
descriptiva
75,892 corpus weight
- desesperanza
desesperanza
75,891 corpus weight
What this shows “desconfiar” 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 | desconfiar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪eskõɱˈfjaɾ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #24,108 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “desconfiar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around desconfiar (IPA [d̪eskõɱˈfjaɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #24,108 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "No confiar, no estar seguro o no tener fe a alguien o algo.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for desconfiar, with forms such as "ddesconfiar", "decsonfiar", and "descconfiar". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "descontar", "desconfía", "desconfiado", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is desconfiar, spelled D-E-S-C-O-N-F-I-A-R.
Definition
- 1No confiar, no estar seguro o no tener fe a alguien o algo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddesconfiar
- decsonfiar
- descconfiar
- descnofiar
- descofniar
- desconfair
- desconffiar
- desconfiarr
- desconfira
- desconifar
- desconnfiar
- desocnfiar
- dessconfiar
- dseconfiar
- edsconfiar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of desconfiar - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "desconfiar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).