desesperado
[d̪esespeˈɾað̞o]
The verdict
“desesperado” has 17 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #9,277. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,277
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que esta sometido por la desesperación.
Corpus desk
Index ES-desesperado · desesperado · Spanish
desesperado · rank #9,277 · 17 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,277
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH descontento
Nearest frequency peer: descontento (-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 “desesperado”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- declarada
declarada
90,727 corpus weight
- demos
demos
90,726 corpus weight
- descontento
descontento
90,725 corpus weight
- desesperado
desesperado
90,724 corpus weight
- diamante
diamante
90,723 corpus weight
- dijimos
dijimos
90,722 corpus weight
What this shows “desesperado” 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 | desesperado |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [d̪esespeˈɾað̞o] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #9,277 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “desesperado”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around desesperado (IPA [d̪esespeˈɾað̞o]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,277 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for desesperado, with forms such as "ddesesperado", "decesperado", and "deessperado". 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, "desespero", "desesperados", "desespera", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 desesperado, spelled D-E-S-E-S-P-E-R-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1Que esta sometido por la desesperación.
- 2Que no tiene esperanza.
- 3Impaciente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how desesperado appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Estaba en una situación desesperada.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddesesperado
- decesperado
- deessperado
- desepserado
- deseseprado
- desespeardo
- desesperaddo
- desesperaod
- desesperdao
- desesperrado
- desespperado
- desespreado
- desessperado
- desseperado
- dessesperado
- dseesperado
- edsesperado
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of desesperado - 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 "desesperado", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).