desempeño
[d̪esẽmˈpeɲo]
The verdict
“desempeño” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #4,594. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,594
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acción o efecto de desempeñar o desempeñarse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-desempeno · desempeño · Spanish
desempeño · rank #4,594 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,594
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH dimensiones
Nearest frequency peer: dimensiones (+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 “desempeño”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- cuota
cuota
95,411 corpus weight
- defensor
defensor
95,410 corpus weight
- desempeño
desempeño
95,407 corpus weight
- dimensiones
dimensiones
95,406 corpus weight
- dispuestos
dispuestos
95,405 corpus weight
- eficaz
eficaz
95,404 corpus weight
What this shows “desempeño” 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 | desempeño |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [d̪esẽmˈpeɲo] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,594 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “desempeño”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around desempeño (IPA [d̪esẽmˈpeɲo]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,594 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for desempeño, with forms such as "ddesempeño", "decempeño", and "deesmpeño". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "desempleo", "desespero", "desempeñar", 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 best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is desempeño, spelled D-E-S-E-M-P-E-Ñ-O.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de desempeñar o desempeñarse.
- 2La realización práctica de un trabajo o un encargo o su resultado.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddesempeño
- decempeño
- deesmpeño
- desemepño
- desemmpeño
- desempeoñ
- desemppeño
- desempñeo
- desepmeño
- desmepeño
- dessempeño
- dseempeño
- edsempeño
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of desempeño - 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 "desempeño", 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).